(fwd) cutils version 1.5.2 - C language miscellaneous utilities
I had a quick look in the Contents file (on www.debian.org) and couldn't find this, so I might have a hack at a package unless anyone else is keener. hamish -- forwarded message -- Path: goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.uwa.edu.au!news.waia.asn.au!news.edu.sollentuna.se!online.no!uninett.no!news.algonet.se!newsfeed1.funet.fi!130.233.40.178.MISMATCH!news.cs.hut.fi!news.clinet.fi!cupido.cs.hut.fi!not-for-mail From: "S. Sigala" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce Subject: cutils version 1.5.2 - C language miscellaneous utilities Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 10:14:55 GMT Organization: none Lines: 61 Approved: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Wirzenius) Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> NNTP-Posting-Host: cantina.clinet.fi NNTP-Posting-User: root X-Server-Date: 26 Nov 1997 10:14:57 GMT Old-Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 22:22:23 +0100 (MET) X-No-Archive: yes X-Auth: PGPMoose V1.1 PGP comp.os.linux.announce iQBVAwUBNHv2oTiesvPHtqnBAQEE9AH/ds+tJs5Wm4NaUJ9Z73CPThJbChvv+qgs q1OhfPhyqOB9x0YAuqEC/SZ7IxBVNnO84w7OJ/iYAOJmgAMEGWbegQ== =zbQv Xref: goanna.cs.rmit.edu.au comp.os.linux.announce:8824 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- [cut & paste from the README] This package is written in ANSI C and was tested only under FreeBSD 2.2-current and Linux 2.0, but should compile with little or no change under any other UNIX OS. The ``cutils'' collection is made of: cinfo, cinfoc and cinfodc - C language documentation tools cdecl and cundecl - decode and encode C type declarations cobfusc - make a C source file unreadable but compilable chilight - highlight C source files ctangle and cweave - simple literate C programming tools cunloop - unloop C loops yyextract - extract grammar rules from yacc grammar yyref - yacc grammar reference program [the LSM entry] Begin3 Title: cutils Version:1.5.2 Entered-date: 24NOV97 Description:C language miscellaneous utilities Keywords: C obfusc shrouder highlight yacc literate Author: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sandro Sigala) Maintained-by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sandro Sigala) Primary-site: ftp.vix.com /guests/ssigala/pub/cutils 149k cutils-1.5.2.tar.gz 151k cutils-1.5.2-1.src.rpm 98k cutils-1.5.2-1.i386.rpm Alternate-size: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/devel/lang/c 149k cutils-1.5.2.tar.gz 151k cutils-1.5.2-1.src.rpm 98k cutils-1.5.2-1.i386.rpm Platforms: ANSI C compiler Copying-policy: BSD-like End - -- This article has been digitally signed by the moderator, using PGP. http://www.iki.fi/liw/lars-public-key.asc has PGP key for validating signature. Send submissions for comp.os.linux.announce to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] PLEASE remember a short description of the software and the LOCATION. This group is archived at http://www.iki.fi/liw/linux/cola.html -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQCVAwUBNHv2n4QRll5MupLRAQFVoAP/QbU3UErByOPef6RyoBMFU0TwBQ0QxwvA K1PCb2uZjh2vyJO2/tBmMvsAZOD7R0F0Png7USaTEawdhIAGpzQZ18n5syfWai1+ i9QxYFSrFdOFgBTl79t4p2y/PAqhArswzOUcxgikFi7cTD0+w8/VZsFP7FT76Nd3 W9yPICDVgdg= =a1NW -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- end of forwarded message -- -- Hamish Moffatt, StudIEAust [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Student, computer science & computer systems engineering.3rd year, RMIT. http://hamish.home.ml.org/ (PGP key here) CPOM: [**] 60% Your train has been cancelled due to defective government at Spring Street.. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
What, why, where, utmp?
One of my "gaping holes of ignorance" has to do with utmp entries; what they are, why are they gone, where is the package that creates them? I know that one of the latest "fixes" to dpkg-buildpackage deals with the lack of utmp entries, but don't understand why they were abandoned. I just discovered that the command "login" is supposed to log the user out and present a new login prompt. This command works ok if you are logged in as root, but when you try to use it as a user, you get a utmp entry missing error, with some statement about login only running from the base shell. So, if there is anyone out there who can explain the problem (and has the inclination) I would appreciate some education. A good reference would probably work as well. Thanks in advance, Dwarf -- _-_-_-_-_-_- _-_-_-_-_-_-_- aka Dale Scheetz Phone: 1 (904) 656-9769 Flexible Software 11000 McCrackin Road e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tallahassee, FL 32308 _-_-_-_-_-_- If you don't see what you want, just ask _-_-_-_-_-_-_- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Config file management utility
On 02-Dec-1997 12:45:31, Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Has much discussion been had about a possible configuration file > management script for the package config scripts to use? > > For example, I installed cron on a Debian box, and then installed mgetty. > Mgetty placed the following at the end of my /etc/crontab: > > #-- mgetty begin > 20,40 * * * * root faxrunq > #-- mgetty end > > Then, when I updated cron, it asked if I wanted to replace my > /etc/crontab. I'm assuming that this would have hosed my mgetty settings, > so I was forced to make the changes to /etc/crontab by hand. Report a bug against mgetty -- packages are not allowed to touch /etc/crontab (Debian Policy manual, section 3.5). That said, it appears that the only policy compliant way for a package to run a script more frequently than once a day is to register a user, and create a crontab for that user. This is not too onerous for news or sendmail, but seems like overkill for every little package. I don't have any good ideas, though...:-( sg -- Steve Greenland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
H.323 status
First, a little history. As I am sure we all know, Linux currently does not support masquerading of video conferencing protocols, including H.323. There are partial solutions using IPPORTFW, but none that work transparently. So, a few weeks ago I started research into this project. I found that doing this was not going to be easy. The initial connection is done on a well-known port. During that communication, a dynamic control channel is netgotiated, and that channel is then used to allocate 'logical' channels, for video, data, and audio, using UDP. Normally, this wouldn't be a BIG problem, but the first two control channels are encoded with ASN.1/PER. For those of you that don't know what that is, it is a data definition language, that allows for transfer of data between disparate machines. Also, it allows of OPTIONAL records in the data stream, which makes it hard to just extract addresses at specific offsets. In my research, I had found the ASN.1 definitions for H.323, but didn't have a compiler to convert them into C header files and translation functions. When I went to find one, the only good one I found was SNACC, which used BER, instead of PER. I then went in search of the standards describing this, but the place that had them was oversees, and charged 20 FF for access, and I didn't want to spend and money becuase this is linux. So, I started hand-converting the definition. I had gotten a hex-dump from developer.intel.com, and was making some progress, but ultimately, I couldn't be sure that I had handled all situations. I have just had a breakthough. I had contacted a private company, and they emailed me a copy of the standards for ASN.1/PER. I should have a something working by the end of the year. First, I will be making a masquerading module, which will only support outgoing connections. Then, I will implement a user-mode proxy, that will comunicate with the kernel module, and allow incoming connections. I also want to make a device driver to allow access to the data, audio, and video in an easier way. I plan on having a basic kernel implementation by the end of the year. Wish me luck+ACE- :) Adam Heath of Borg-Linux adam.heath+AEA-usa.net Join the H323 effort. Email http://www.debian.org - Get Your Own Linux+ACE- h323-request+AEA-cichlid.com with http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3375265 - Page Me the word subscribe in the body. Windows 95: -- 32-bit extensions and a graphical Windows v. Linux is shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating a no-win situation. originally coded for a 4-bit micropro- cessor written by a 2-bit company that It is nearly impossible to can't stand for 1 bit of competition.look at a penguin and get angry. ps. The linux kernel comes with source(duh+ACE-), but I was wondering what was thought about distributing the documentation that was used to generate the free source. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Config file management utility
Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That said, it appears that the only policy compliant way for a package > to run a script more frequently than once a day is to register a user, > and create a crontab for that user. This is not too onerous for > news or sendmail, but seems like overkill for every little package. Creating a user shouldn't be that big of a deal, as long as it's a useful abstraction. Having a user for a fax system seems apropriate. Also, not solving non-problems generally makes our work easier. -- Raul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Config file management utility
Steve Greenland wrote: > That said, it appears that the only policy compliant way for a package > to run a script more frequently than once a day is to register a user, > and create a crontab for that user. This is not too onerous for > news or sendmail, but seems like overkill for every little package. > > I don't have any good ideas, though...:-( Yeah, I've been wrestling with the same problem today, with mrtg. I don't want to create a user, of course. I wonder if it would be legit to modify root's crontab, via crontab -e. It complies with the letter of policy, but perhaps not the spirit.. At least that method would work around the problem of /etc/crontab, a conffile, being modifed. /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root is not a conffile.. Another way, that sould comply with policy, were if cron came with a update-crontab script, that was responsible for modifying /etc/crontab, in a similar fasion to update-inetd. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Config file management utility
Raul Miller wrote: > Creating a user shouldn't be that big of a deal, as long as it's a > useful abstraction. Having a user for a fax system seems apropriate. Having a user for mrtg doesn't seem very appropriate to me, though. Mrtg is a simple program, that needs to run every 5 minutes. A user is overkill. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Mailinglists documented
Yann Dirson wrote: > One nice thing would be to document a way for anyone to know which > debian lists he's currently subscribed to. > > Is there such a mechanism, or is there only this stuff (what's its > name, anyway ?) to be run on master to get the info ? I know there's a way that Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> has of checking this. Pete, I've several times wanted to check this, but didn't want to bother you. I wonder if something could be automated? -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
EGCS 1.0 is out
Just to let everyone know, EGCS has very recently (hours) just put out their first release! ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.0 It contians it's own integrated libstdc++, libg++ is not supported right now and is obscolecent. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
going to package e
I intend to package the beta enlightenment window manager, imlib, and the default themes. If anyone wants to do it instead, I'll happily fall back to kibitz mode -- let me know. -- Raul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: H.323 status
You might look at the rsalabs web site; there's an "introduction to asn.1" document there which is quite thorough, despite the name, though if I remember correctly it only describes one of BER or DER, whichever PKCS actually use. It might be worth a look. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Config file management utility
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Having a user for mrtg doesn't seem very appropriate to me, though. > Mrtg is a simple program, that needs to run every 5 minutes. A user is > overkill. If a user is overkill then cron probably is too. You'd probably do fine with something like ( trap "" SIGHUP su nobody -c ' while sleep 300; do whatever; done /dev/null 2>&1 & echo $! ' >/var/run/mtrg.pid ) -- Raul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Config file management utility
-Original Message- From: Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-devel@lists.debian.org Date: Wednesday, December 03, 1997 8:05 PM Subject: Re: Config file management utility >On 02-Dec-1997 12:45:31, Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Has much discussion been had about a possible configuration file >> management script for the package config scripts to use? >> >> For example, I installed cron on a Debian box, and then installed mgetty. >> Mgetty placed the following at the end of my /etc/crontab: >> >> #-- mgetty begin >> 20,40 * * * * root faxrunq >> #-- mgetty end >> >> Then, when I updated cron, it asked if I wanted to replace my >> /etc/crontab. I'm assuming that this would have hosed my mgetty settings, >> so I was forced to make the changes to /etc/crontab by hand. > >Report a bug against mgetty -- packages are not allowed to touch >/etc/crontab (Debian Policy manual, section 3.5). > >That said, it appears that the only policy compliant way for a package >to run a script more frequently than once a day is to register a user, >and create a crontab for that user. This is not too onerous for >news or sendmail, but seems like overkill for every little package. > >I don't have any good ideas, though...:-( > >sg > >-- >Steve Greenland > > How about this. Some one creates a script, that is run from /etc/crontab. Whenever this script is run, it checks to see if another program is supposed to be run. If so, it does it, then checks to see when the next script is supposed to run. It then remodifies /etc/crontab, updating it's entry, so that it can run the next item. Does anyone understand this? I can't do it right now, as I am working on H.323 for Linux. Adam Heath of Borg-Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED] Join the H323 effort. Email http://www.debian.org - Get Your Own Linux! [EMAIL PROTECTED] with http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3375265 - Page Me the word subscribe in the body. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Config file management utility
Raul Miller wrote: > If a user is overkill then cron probably is too. You'd probably do > fine with something like > > ( > trap "" SIGHUP > su nobody -c ' > while sleep 300; do > whatever; > done /dev/null 2>&1 & > echo $! > ' >/var/run/mtrg.pid > ) I'd much rather have a cron job for this than keep another process running all the time. Cron is there so we don't have to use this sort of hack. -- see shy jo -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: EGCS 1.0 is out
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: > Just to let everyone know, EGCS has very recently (hours) just put out > their first release! > > ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.0 > > It contians it's own integrated libstdc++, true > libg++ is not supported right now and is obscolecent. it's a bit misleading. It's not integrated into tarball, but it's quite good piece of C++ codeand can be compiled by EGCS. HJ has it packed separately somewhere OK -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Config file management utility
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another way, that sould comply with policy, were if cron came with a > update-crontab script, that was responsible for modifying /etc/crontab, > in a similar fasion to update-inetd. I think that this, or something similar, is in the end, the right solution. Ideally, I think this should be handled like the menu package. /etc/crontab would be augmented to have something like: # BEGIN AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED SECTION -- DO NOT EDIT # # END AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED SECTION -- DO NOT EDIT # Then each package would just have a file in /usr/lib/cron/auto (or whatever) which would be used to (re)build the contents of this section whenever a relevant package was installed. -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: EGCS 1.0 is out
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Oleg Krivosheev wrote: > > libg++ is not supported right now and is obscolecent. > > it's a bit misleading. It's not integrated into > tarball, but it's quite good piece of C++ codeand > can be compiled by EGCS. HJ has it packed separately > somewhere Ah, well any code that uses it is non-standard so I would strongly discourage anyone from using it for a new project. The STL classes provide pretty much the same functionality in a standard way. Could we possible separate libg++ and libstdc++? I don't think there is much reason to include libg++ in Base, but libstdc++ definately should be in there. I do admit I don't have any idea how much C++ code in debian makes use of the special G++ constructs so this might be a bad idea! Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
[Q] Standard way to force libc5-compat?
Hi, I successfully upgraded to hamm from a very recent CD. I've got netscape, Realplayer, mxaudio, & lots of other non-debian stuff working (2.0.33-pre-1 :), so the distribution seems to be working pretty well. However, there ARE some bugs, of course. I'll report them here later...is this the right list? Is there an FAQ for people upgrading to the unstable version? I'd love to read it :) What I need to know right know is whether or not there is a "standard" way to run binaries (such as netscape) that have been builts with libc5. I have very simple script called '5run' that tries to do this right now, but I still need to fix it so that it complains when it can't find the libc5 version of a library, instead of just using the libc6 version (and crashing!). Can somebody please point me in the right direction? I don't want to go ahead and write a big system, only to delete it immediately when I find out its not the "right" way! Thanks, -BenRI -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: going to package e
Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I intend to package the beta enlightenment window manager, imlib, and > the default themes. If anyone wants to do it instead, I'll happily > fall back to kibitz mode -- let me know. Lalo Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did a package of beta 12, back in August, but he didn't upload it since he was waiting for developer status. I wonder what happened? Did we lose another one? Anyways, his old package is at: ftp://ftp.mandrake.net/pub/enlightenment/debian-deb/ For some reason, there's no source packages. Cheers, - Jim pgpsJbx6HUNhZ.pgp Description: PGP signature
I plan on packaging sane
I plan to package sane, an API for scanners, in the very near future. -- Kevin Dalley [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
isdnutils/diald/ppp - hangs on authentication request
I have an internal ISDN card using the HiSax driver and isdnutils; the kernel is 2.0.31 + patches (equivalent, I think, to 2.0.32) Versions: ii isdnutils 2.1.beta1-16 isdn utilities ii ppp 2.3.1-6Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) daemon. ii diald 0.16.4-10 dial on demand daemon for PPP and SLIP. The ISDN connection to my ISP is via a pseudo-modem on ttyI0. In all other respects it is the same as the connection via analogue modem. The connection will hang if (I think) a remote authentication request is received. For instance, if I try to use it to upload a package to chiark, the first file goes across, then there is an authentication request from chiark and then the link is hung. Can anyone offer a solution to this? Has anyone any idea which package the bug is in, or is it in the kernel itself? How can I find out more precisely what is going wrong? -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a £25 administration charge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: predepends on libc6?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Fri, 21 Nov 1997, Bdale Garbee wrote: > In bug report 15091, Christian Meder suggests to me that I make gzip predepend > on libc6. It is not clear to me that this is a good thing to do. [ I think it is a good thing to do, so I have changed the severity to "grave" ]. > What is the process by which we expect current Debian 1.3.1 users to upgrade > to Debian 2.0? I used the libc5->libc6 mini-Howto when I upgraded my > systems, and all went very smoothly. Do we expect to suggest our users go > through a similarly manual process as part of the upgrade, or can we make it > all work without manual intervention? We "should" be able to do all work without manual intervention. To this end, we should of course fine-tune all our Dependencies and Pre-Dependencies to avoid system crashes or failures. That's why our wonderful .deb format was created. > I'd be pleased to do whatever is necessary in my packages (particularly > the essential ones like gzip) to make this transition as smooth as possible, > but I don't have a good sense of where we are with all this, and don't want > to do anything rash. Packaging manual says: Pre-Depends should be used sparingly, preferably only by packages whose premature upgrade or installation would hamper the ability of the system to continue with any upgrade that might be in progress. In our case, "premature upgrade or installation of gzip would hamper the ability of the system to continue with any upgrade that might be in progress", because currently you can upgrade to libc6 and libc6-gzip in such way that gzip is installed *before* libc6 get configured, and gzip is used by dpkg itself to install other packages. I am now surprised that the manual does not explicitly says that, in general, all essential packages should have a Pre-Depends line, but at least it suggest that all packages "essential to the packaging system" should do. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: latin1 iQCVAgUBNIaLWSqK7IlOjMLFAQGZYQP/Vd/I+LaqRGuFMfAnwaRPn4bHhMm4nwFV rSCODGhK+JlZZWOWttbeOfr0SONV8PSqaIHZZf4C7oR4uBw9MN/CxC8xtt5PmwDA ESaeAjG9w5dkPqE6qBVKYpSTyHiNNfWdGXsSnDp5RVFms9aARGZ5+qo5GH8Pg3jo o0rNJxrX794= =AWug -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: What, why, where, utmp?
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dale Scheetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >One of my "gaping holes of ignorance" has to do with utmp entries; what >they are, why are they gone, where is the package that creates them? An utmp entry is an entry in a fixed-size binary database located in /var/run/utmp. It describes a "login session" currently active on the machine, that can be started by getty, telnetd, rlogind, ftpd, xterm, sshd etc. >I know that one of the latest "fixes" to dpkg-buildpackage deals with the >lack of utmp entries, but don't understand why they were abandoned. They weren't - the size of the entries in the above mentioned database changed because of the move to libc6 (libc6 defines a different, more complete `struct utmp' which is the fixed-size entry I was talking about). Because of that, some old programs were unable to read the new format. >I just discovered that the command "login" is supposed to log the user out >and present a new login prompt. Not really - that only works if you do "exec login" thereby replacing your current shell with a fresh login process. >This command works ok if you are logged in >as root, but when you try to use it as a user, you get a utmp entry >missing error, with some statement about login only running from the base >shell. Presumably your root shell reckognizes "login" as a special case and does an "exec login" instead, and the normal user shell doesn't. I wouldn't recommend doing this by the way - normally, you exit from the shell, the parent (either init, or rlogind, or telnetd etc) notices this and writes a logout entry in the `wtmp' file. Then a new session gets started and a new login entry starts. By using login directly, the logout+new login entry never gets written so someone using "last" will only see the first session (which accounts for the time spent by both the first and the 2nd session). To prevent your users from doing this, take the `s' bit off login! >So, if there is anyone out there who can explain the problem (and has the >inclination) I would appreciate some education. A good reference would >probably work as well. Hmm, I'm not sure if there's a complete reference somewhere.. I found out all this stuff by trial and error. Hmm perhaps it would make a nice LJ article :) Mike. -- Miquel van Smoorenburg | Studying to be a technomage <*> [EMAIL PROTECTED] | "May you live in interesting times" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
where is any_d.b
It disappeared on my system. Is it in a different package nowadays? Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager| topsystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 52146 Wuerselen Go SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire! | Tel: (+49) 2405/4670-44 Use Debian GNU/Linux! | Fax: (+49) 2405/4670-10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: going to package e
Jim Pick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lalo Martins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> did a package of beta 12, back in > August, but he didn't upload it since he was waiting for developer > status. I wonder what happened? Did we lose another one? I was going to pick it up from him, but... > Anyways, his old package is at: > ftp://ftp.mandrake.net/pub/enlightenment/debian-deb/ > For some reason, there's no source packages. That's where I was supposed to pick up the source package from, and I've not seen it there :( I suppose I should ask Mandrake directly. -- Raul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
libc5
How come this packaged hasn't been updated for a while. Since H.J. Lu is adding more and more libc6 compatibility changes I think it makes sense to stay up-to-date with libc5, too. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Project-Manager| topsystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 52146 Wuerselen Go SF49ers! Go Rhein Fire! | Tel: (+49) 2405/4670-44 Use Debian GNU/Linux! | Fax: (+49) 2405/4670-10 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap / WNPP: Dermot Bradley probably not maintaining packages
On 3 Dec 1997, Ed Donovan wrote: > I think Dermot Bradley isn't actively maintaining packages. I sent mail > to one of his addresses, about packaging gated, a while back. I didn't > hear from him, though I saw gated came off the WNPP list under his name > later on. His packages in the archive are mrtg, libgd, libgd-dev, and > radiusd-merit (the last already tagged as an orphan); the most recent > date on any of them is July 24. And I don't see any mails to -devel or > -user from him since July. At the minute I'm not on debian-user or debian-devel (haven't been for 5-6 months now). This was due to a change in job which meant I lost my 24hr/128K leased line Internet access and so had to cut back on the amount of email I received. I haven't given up my Debian packages but unfortunately I've been short of time recently for reading the latest packaging docs and keeping my Debian machine up-to-date. I have over the last 2 weeks upgraded my development machine to hamm (unstable) and intend to update my packages for hamm. As for the current state of my packages (and proposed packages): - libgd & libgd-dev: trying to figure how to build got libc5 and libc6 versions using debmake - any help welcomed. - mrtg: depends on me first finishing libgd and libgd-dev - hylafax (hylafax-serever, hylafax-client, hylafax-doc): my last (first?) version is still in project/experimental. Now that I've got my machine running libc6 I indend to rebuild this and put it into unstable. - gated (proposed): I built a package about 8-10 months ago but due to the requirement for a license (because of the OSPF code) it couldn't go into Debian (this was discussed on debian-devel back then). I still have my .dsc and .diffs.gz files for this for an older version and I started work on packaging gated 3.5.7 for libc6 last week (I see 3.5.8 has *just* come out). Any suggestions what to do with the finished version? could it go in non-free or would that still cause license problems? - ldap (proposed): built an unreleased package but could never get slurpd to work (threads problem). Intending to build under libc6 which is supposed to have better threads support. An alternative option is that Critical Angle have an RPM version of their heavily hacked Umich ldap. - nocol (proposed): built an unreleased package many months ago and then emailed nocol's author with my Linux patches. I've been waiting for the nocol author to release 4.2 (which should have my patches) before uploading a package of it - he told me about month ago that it would be out within a week - still no sign :-) - radiusd-merit: haven't looked at this for some time. Indeed someone else did a non-maintainer release about 6 months ago so I let this one drop. > So I think he's probably just gotten too busy, and you should go for it > with ldap, Brian. :-) Not too busy, just having problems keeping up with packaging standards/libc5-libc6 migration/debmake changes/Debian upgrades before I can start updating my packages :-( BTW Can anyone tell me how to create a package based on pristine source using debmake? Dermot -- Dermot Bradley [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: where is any_d.b
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Michael Meskes wrote: > It disappeared on my system. Is it in a different package nowadays? I believe lilo20 obsoleted it. Check out the lilo docs. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Intent to package: umich-ldap / WNPP: Dermot Bradley probably not maintaining packages
Dermot John Bradley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > BTW Can anyone tell me how to create a package based on pristine source > using debmake? >From www.debian.org, hit "developers corner". Then, start with Creating a Package using Debmake, after that, hit New-Maintainer's Debian Packaging Howto. Get your debian/* files to a rough approximation of what you want, make note of areas where you need to do more. Then go through the others (developer's reference, packaging manual, ..) and look for stuff that seems relevant. [hit a mirror site if www is acting up.] I've not successfully done a libc5/libc6 library package yet myself... -- Raul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: `COAS'
Karl M. Hegbloom wrote: > > Perhaps Diety should become a part of that? *sigh*... not diety, Deity. ^^ I wish people would learn to spell. This is one of the exceptions to the "i before e" rule. Behan -- Behan Webster mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] +1-613-224-7547 http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: libc5
Michael Meskes wrote: > How come this packaged hasn't been updated for a while. Since H.J. Lu is > adding more and more libc6 compatibility changes I think it makes sense to > stay up-to-date with libc5, too. I haven't heard anything from Helmut Geyer in months, except for a message on Sep 24 saying he was back. (Apparently he wasn't). I think it is time to officially orphan his packages, so that they can find new maintainers. As far as I can tell from the Packages files, this is his current list of packages: Source glibc: (already taken over) libc6-pic, libc6, libc6-dbg, locales, libc6-dev, timezones, libc6-doc Source procps: procps, libproc-dev, xproc Source libc: libc5-altdev, libc5, libc5-altdbg Source fortune-mod: fortune-mod, fortunes Package ghostview Package lacheck (needs conversion to libc6) Package chos Package auctex Package xxgdb -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: EGCS 1.0 is out
> Just to let everyone know, EGCS has very recently (hours) just put out > their first release! > > ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.0 > > It contians it's own integrated libstdc++, libg++ is not supported right > now and is obscolecent. Interesting. I didn't think it was a Cygnus project. Does anybody know why it's just not "gcc 3.0"? Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Generated by Signify v1.03. For this and more, visit http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: not a first amendment question
> Brian> Morality is a touchy subject and (in my opinion) the _only_ place to > Brian> draw this line is all or nothing. > > Agreed, except that clearly illegal stuff should be banned, of > course. I doubt anyone would condone a child_pornography.deb package, > for instance :-) Yes, "the law" is a good place to draw the line. Of course, "the law" changes depending upon which country you are in, but I'd think we could quite easily satisfy the most popular goverments Debian is used under. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Generated by Signify v1.03. For this and more, visit http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: be careful with Replaces, please
> > Nope, didn't seem to be flagged for install on my end. I would have > > suggested keeping the same name and conflicting with the versions of dump > > and quota that would have depended on the libraries. > > OK. I think I'll change the name back to "e2fsprogs", and just make it > conflict with old "dump" and "quota" packages. There's not much > chances anybody else will complaint, except for people having build > local packages depending on it. > > Anyone has objections to this ? Sounds like the best solution to me. Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) --- Tired of spam? See what you can do to fight it at: http://www.cauce.org/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: EGCS 1.0 is out
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Brian White wrote: > > Just to let everyone know, EGCS has very recently (hours) just put out > > their first release! > > > > ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.0 > > > > It contians it's own integrated libstdc++, libg++ is not supported right > > now and is obscolecent. > > Interesting. I didn't think it was a Cygnus project. Does anybody know > why it's just not "gcc 3.0"? Because egcs is a fork of the GCC development. GCC 2.8 is still planned by the FSF, but isn't stable enough for release yet. Read http://www.cygnus.com/egcs/ for information on the egcs project. -- Scott K. Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.gate.net/~storm/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
master's Incoming and 2.0 release date
Hello everyone, don't you think that having master's Incoming directory full of new packages that haven't been integrated to hamm may delay 2.0 release? I know Guy is having problems with his Internet connection but wouldn't it be nice if we had more people taking care of Incoming? What do you think? E.- -- Eloy A. Paris Information Technology Department Rockwell Automation de Venezuela Telephone: +58-2-9432311 Fax: +58-2-9431645 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: `COAS'
Behan Webster wrote: > *sigh*... not diety, Deity. >^^ > I wish people would learn to spell. This is one of the exceptions to > the "i before e" rule. That's what comes from people not learning Latin at school anymore :) Stephen --- "Normality is a statistical illusion." -- me -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Who's root on Master?
Hello, I need to have my password changed in master, who is in charge of maintaining the user accounts there? thanks, -- |\/| /\ ( /\ |\| ' +---Eduardo-Marcel-Macan---+ these opinions +---+ / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / are mine, not / ,,umop apisdn w,I,, / +--+ my employer's +---+ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: EGCS 1.0 is out
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Brian White wrote: > > Just to let everyone know, EGCS has very recently (hours) just put out > > their first release! > > > > ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/egcs/releases/egcs-1.0 > > > > It contians it's own integrated libstdc++, libg++ is not supported right > > now and is obscolecent. > > Interesting. I didn't think it was a Cygnus project. Does anybody know > why it's just not "gcc 3.0"? Cygnus sponosers development and many of the big developers are Cygnus ones. The call it 'gcc 2.90' and I think they intend to somday release it as gcc 3.0. Right now it is based on gcc 2.8 (still unreleased) and contains a number of optimization and C++ improvements. BTW, if anyone is doing C++ development you should use EGCS, it almost has complete C++ support. Jason -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Config file management utility
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Adam Heath wrote: > How about this. Some one creates a script, that is run from /etc/crontab. > Whenever this script is run, it checks to see if another program is supposed > to be run. If so, it does it, then checks to see when the next script is > supposed to run. It then remodifies /etc/crontab, updating it's entry, so > that it can run the next item. Does anyone understand this? It sounds like something I was going to suggest as a joke. I was going to propose that, in cron.daily, they put in a script that sets up 288 "at" jobs... all 5 minutes apart. However, that's about at the top of the scale of tackiness and inelegance, IMHO. - Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: [H.323] H.323 status
At 08:39 PM 12/3/97 -0500, Adam Heath wrote: >First, a little history. > >As I am sure we all know, Linux currently does not support masquerading of video >conferencing protocols, including H.323. There are partial solutions using >IPPORTFW, but none that work transparently. > >So, a few weeks ago I started research into this project. I found that doing >this was not going to be easy. The initial connection is done on a well-known >port. During that communication, a dynamic control channel is netgotiated, and >that channel is then used to allocate 'logical' channels, for video, data, and >audio, using UDP. > >Normally, this wouldn't be a BIG problem, but the first two control channels are >encoded with ASN.1/PER. For those of you that don't know what that is, it is a >data definition language, that allows for transfer of data between disparate >machines. Also, it allows of OPTIONAL records in the data stream, which makes >it hard to just extract addresses at specific offsets. > >In my research, I had found the ASN.1 definitions for H.323, but didn't have a >compiler to convert them into C header files and translation functions. When I >went to find one, the only good one I found was SNACC, which used BER, instead >of PER. ASN decoding, lots of fun. I once wrote one of these for an SNMP module for an embedded print server many years back. Unfortunately, I don't have access to that code anymore. I don't remember what the BER/PER stuff is, I thought it was all pretty generic. I would think you could find source for an ASN decoder in the Linux SNMP code. Might be what you are looking for. [snip] >First, I will be making a masquerading module, which will only support outgoing >connections. Then, I will implement a user-mode proxy, that will comunicate >with the kernel module, and allow incoming connections. I also want to make a >device driver to allow access to the data, audio, and video in an easier way. > Sounds great! >I plan on having a basic kernel implementation by the end of the year. > >Wish me luck+ACE- :) > Good luck. > > Adam Heath of Borg-Linux adam.heath+AEA-usa.net Join the H323 effort. Email > http://www.debian.org - Get Your Own Linux+ACE- h323-request+AEA-cichlid.com with > http://wwp.mirabilis.com/3375265 - Page Me the word subscribe in the body. > > Windows 95: -- 32-bit extensions and a graphical Windows v. Linux is > shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating a no-win situation. > originally coded for a 4-bit micropro- > cessor written by a 2-bit company that It is nearly impossible to > can't stand for 1 bit of competition.look at a penguin and get angry. > >ps. The linux kernel comes with source(duh+ACE-), but I was wondering what was >thought about distributing the documentation that was used to generate the free >source. > > >- >To unsubscribe use [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Archives http://www.scruz.net/~cichlid/h.323-archive > Al Youngwerth [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: `COAS'
Behan Webster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >[Anon wrote:] >> Perhaps Diety should become a part of that? > >*sigh*... not diety, Deity. > ^^ Diety, of course, meaning "of or like a diet". In the same vein as "boxy". At least, that's what I think every time someone spells it like that. :-) -- Charles Briscoe-Smith White pages entry, with PGP key: http://alethea.ukc.ac.uk/wp?95cpb4> PGP public keyprint: 74 68 AB 2E 1C 60 22 94 B8 21 2D 01 DE 66 13 E2 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: bo-updates packages
On 04-Dec-1997 14:08:59, Paul Seelig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Baker) writes: > Well, this temporary problem lasts since quite a while now and i fear > that it will last for quite a while longer. I don't expect Debian-2.0 > to happen earlier than somewhere at the end of january next year. So > why not update some crucial packages for bo resulting maybe in a minor > interim release? How about perl-5.004, the current bash and a few > other important goodies? And who is going to check and make sure that all the other packages in bo that use perl, bash and the "few other important goodies" still work the new versions? That's what a "stable" version is all about... steve -- Steve Greenland -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Config file management utility
On 3 Dec 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Another way, that sould comply with policy, were if cron came with a > > update-crontab script, that was responsible for modifying /etc/crontab, > > in a similar fasion to update-inetd. > > I think that this, or something similar, is in the end, the right > solution. > > Ideally, I think this should be handled like the menu package. > /etc/crontab would be augmented to have something like: > > # BEGIN AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED SECTION -- DO NOT EDIT # > > > # END AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED SECTION -- DO NOT EDIT # > > Then each package would just have a file in /usr/lib/cron/auto (or > whatever) which would be used to (re)build the contents of this > section whenever a relevant package was installed. Well, that's pretty much what I was suggesting in the beginning. The only difference is that you wouldn't have one, monolithic section. Rather, you'd have sections placed there by the individual packages. For example: echo "42 6 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily" | \ alter-file /etc/crontab --package=cron causes /etc/crontab to read: # cron BEGIN 42 6 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily # cron END And then you could append to sections, like so: echo "47 6 * * 7 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly" | \ alter-file /etc/crontab --package=cron --append to give: # cron BEGIN 42 6 * * * root run-parts /etc/cron.daily 47 6 * * 7 root run-parts /etc/cron.weekly # cron END You get the idea. Of course, in real life, you wouldn't do a section a line at a time. You'd pipe the whole snippet in like so: alter-file /etc/crontab --package=cron < /tmp/mysnippet You could remove a section: alter-file /etc/crontab --package=cron --remove You could also specify that, if removal of a section leaves the file empty, then remove the file: alter-file /etc/crontab --package=mgetty --remove --rm-on-empty Also, since not all config files use "#" as the comment, you'd be able to specify alternate comment chars (that the program uses for the BEGIN and END markers): alter-file /etc/someconfig --package=foobar --comment=";" < /etc/snippet Well, you guys get the idea.. I already have something like this written. One of my company's clients uses us as an e-mail forwarding service. So we maintain the forwarding e-mail addresses in an Access database and, periodically, we export it to a text file and feed it into this script I've got which replaces everything between "# BEGIN someclient" and "# END someclient" with the new section. So... it wouldn't be all that difficult to add the other features I've mentioned. The only problem is that it uses Perl. I haven't read the Debian policies so I don't know if Perl (or a stripped down version of it) is one of the things I can assume is on even the most minimal system. If not, I can do the same thing with bash/sed, I s'pose. - Joe -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: master's Incoming and 2.0 release date
"Eloy A. Paris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I know Guy is having problems with his Internet connection but
> wouldn't it be nice if we had more people taking care of Incoming?
Guy is back in some form, at least he just dealt with a whole host of
bugs filed against ftp.debian.org.
Martin and I have offered to help Guy with Incoming and he's
indicated[1] that when he gets back, he'll take us up on that offer.
(We {c,w}ouldn't just start barging in there and start doing stuff
for, hopefully, self-evident reasons)
[1] http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-devel-9711/msg00919.html>
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Re: Config file management utility
Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The only problem is that it uses Perl. I haven't read the Debian policies > so I don't know if Perl (or a stripped down version of it) is one of the > things I can assume is on even the most minimal system. If not, I can do > the same thing with bash/sed, I s'pose. You can rely on perl. -- Raul -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: Config file management utility
Joe Emenaker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Well, that's pretty much what I was suggesting in the beginning. The only > difference is that you wouldn't have one, monolithic section. Rather, > you'd have sections placed there by the individual packages. For example: The only advantage to the monolithic section I can see is that then you only have one block that the tool is ever manipulating, and since the entire block is regenerated anytime any piece changes, it seemed like it might make the setup less affected by minor corruptions. Proabably not a big deal either way... -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Linking (ld) problem with package.
I'm trying to improve some stuff in the rscheme package, and I have several shared libraries (for rscheme internal use only), that I need to glom together into one big shared library -- i.e. I want the collected library to contain all the code from the sub-libraries -- no dynamic links to any of the others. Is this possible? I've looked through the ld info pages several times and haven't found anything that works. Thanks -- Rob Browning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP fingerprint = E8 0E 0D 04 F5 21 A0 94 53 2B 97 F5 D6 4E 39 30 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Re: (fwd) cutils version 1.5.2 - C language miscellaneous utilities
Hamish Moffatt writes: > ctangle and cweave - simple literate C programming tools These are already part of the "cweb" package. If there're different, you may use alternatives ? -- Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Stop making M$-Bill richer & richer, alt-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | support Debian GNU/Linux: debian-email: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | more powerful, more stable ! http://www.a2points.com/homepage/3475232 | - A computer engineer's looking for a job ! - -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Will dump work with disks over 2Gb?
With the latest version of dump, I tried to backup my new 4.5Gb disk to DAT tape: linda# /sbin/dump 0nufB /dev/st0 1365000 /usr1 DUMP: Date of this level 0 dump: Thu Dec 4 22:46:30 1997 DUMP: Date of last level 0 dump: the epoch DUMP: Dumping /dev/sdb1 (/usr1) to /dev/st0 DUMP: mapping (Pass I) [regular files] DUMP: mapping (Pass II) [directories] DUMP: estimated 642366 tape blocks on 0.47 tape(s). DUMP: dumping (Pass III) [directories] DUMP: dumping (Pass IV) [regular files] DUMP: 8.39% done, finished in 0:54 DUMP: 16.68% done, finished in 0:49 DUMP: 24.97% done, finished in 0:45 DUMP: 33.27% done, finished in 0:40 DUMP: 41.57% done, finished in 0:35 DUMP: bread: lseek fails DUMP: bread: lseek fails DUMP: bread: lseek fails DUMP: bread: lseek fails ... and so on for ever ... Versions: ii dump0.4b4-24.4bsd dump and restore for ext2 filesystems ii e2fslibsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system shared libs. ii e2fsprogsg 1.10-8 The EXT2 file system utilities. Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda3 49737 1867128498 40% / /dev/hda4 96619 4725044380 52% /var /dev/sda12028098 1285225 638051 67% /usr /dev/sdb14292072 612693 3457282 15% /usr1 dump worked fine on the other three partitions. -- Oliver Elphick[EMAIL PROTECTED] Isle of Wight http://www.lfix.co.uk/oliver PGP key from public servers; key ID 32B8FAA1 Unsolicited email advertisements are not welcome; any person sending such will be invoiced for telephone time used in downloading together with a £25 administration charge. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
