Bug#1061155: cron: "crontab -e" does not report "unsafe" mail and so job output can be lost

2024-01-19 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-182 Severity: grave Justification: causes non-serious data loss Dear Maintainer, * What led up to the situation? 1. A user ran "crontab -e" 2. He added the line (note the space): MAILTO=a...@example.org, b...@example.com 3. He saved and exited 4. No errors

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
on your Debian system when > this fails? The bug log suggests it'll be a UTF-8 one since it's a > fresh etch install. Yes, it is. -jonathan -- Jonathan H N Chin | deputy computer | Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | systems manager | tel/fax: +4

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
; username' to query the different users. Yes, it works. > > > 'LC_ALL=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-1 ypcat' > > This works. > > This seems to say that the problem is in the nis package instead of the > glibc package. There's only

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-08-15 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
(note that you may have to generate the corresponding locale) This works. -jonathan -- Jonathan H N Chin | deputy computer | Newton Institute, Cambridge, UK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | systems manager | tel/fax: +44 1223 767091/330508 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-07-01 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
aurelien wrote: > Would it be possible to test that with libc6_2.7-12 ? Fails, with apparently same behaviour as 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5 : $ dpkg -l libc6|awk '/^.i/{print $3}' 2.7-12 $ ypcat passwd|grep Mark|awk -F: '{print $5}'|od -c 000 -jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-06-20 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
broonie wrote: > ...here you are talking about specific NIS package versions rather than > a change from sarge to etch. Can you please confirm that the issue you > are seeing manifests when changing distributions rather than being > specifically the result of an upgrade of the nis package? Yes. S

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-06-20 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
broonie wrote: > Reassigning there as a result but please provide further information on > what has changed between a working and non-working system - I strongly > expect that you will also have changed other packages. I have a webserver running sarge. I'm building a replacement using etch. It's

Bug#487104: nis: map values containing non-ascii characters vanish

2008-06-19 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Addendum: I can't see much difference between nis 3.13-2 and 3.17-6. However, there are lots of differences in libc6 going from 2.3.2.ds1-22sarge6 to 2.3.6.ds1-13etch5. Since ypcat is just a wrapper to yp_all calls (from libnsl ?), perhaps this bug should be reassigned to libc6. -jonathan -

Bug#479731: Processed: severity of 479731 is grave

2008-06-14 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Sorry, I misunderstood your previous email. I've uploaded the new version. -jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#470664: kvm: can't boot with qcow image

2008-03-12 Thread Jonathan H N Chin
Package: kvm Version: 63+dfsg-1 Severity: grave Justification: renders package unusable $ dpkg -l kvm | tail -1 | awk '{print $3}' 63+dfsg-1 $ qemu-img create -f qcow test.img 2G Formatting 'test.img', fmt=qcow, size=2097152 kB $ kvm -boot d -cdrom debian.img -hda test.img qemu: could not open di