Package: bash
Version: 1.14.4-2
bash has a very annoying habit of creating a world-readable
.bash_history file, if you let it.
I have solved this problem by putting creating a mode 600 empty file
/etc/skel/.bash_history, so that the file already has the right
permissions when bash starts to use i
Ian Murdock writes ("Bug#1544: usergroups in adduser"):
> Package: adduser
> Version: 1.94-1
>
> Users added when using usergroups should have home directories with
> mode 2775, and all skeletal files should be g+w. This is how it is
> currently created:
>
> $ ls -la /mnt/home/imurdock
> total 4
>
Nils Rennebarth writes ("Bug#1391"):
> texbin *does* depend on texlib. It is listed in the dependencies.
> The dependencies however appear to be satisfied by an older revision
> of texlib, that will not have all required scripts. Is this a bug
> in dpkg? The poster didn't state the dpkg version.
>
Can you send us the hosts file? I'd like to see what the root disk put
there when you configured your system.
My system didn't do that, by the way.
Thanks
Bruce
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Package: minicom
Version: 1.71
Revision: 1
After upgrading minicom from 1.60 to 1.71, the two config files
/etc/minicom.users and /etc/minirc.dfl are now expected in /var/lib/minicom.
Because 1.60 has them as conffiles in /etc whereas 1.71 has them in
/var/lib/minicom. Either postinst shoudl mov
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Engel)
> Subject: Re: dpkg Selective Install
>
> > A better solution is, I think, firstly to use a mechanism I propose to
> > add to dpkg to have it selectively not install certain files (those
> > matching a list of wildcards in a configuration file somewhere).
>
Package: 1440_boot_floppy.gz
Version: 0.93R6 (Sep 27)
On Wed, 4 Oct 95 09:14 EST, Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Bruce, please delay making the final basedisks until this evening,
> after I've had a chance to upload the new image package. I'll be
> away from the office all day today, so
On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, Michael E. Deisher wrote:
> Does anyone know why "get dirname.tar" has been disabled on the ftp
> site. I noticed that are .notar files in most directories. Does this
> mean that "get dirname.tar" is disabled from those directories? I
> asked Matt Bailey about this but he di
Package: bsdutils? netstd?
Version: bsdutils 1.3-1, netstd 1.17-1
Are `mesg y' terminals on Debian supposed to be g+w, or go+w ?
telnetd (from netbase) and mesg (from bsdutils) seem to thing g+w
ought to be sufficient; however, write (also from bsdutils) seems to
require go+w (though `richard', w
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 95 08:39 EST
From: Ian Murdock <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Argh. I just noticed that I'm going to have to rebuild the kernel to
support ppp 2.2. Should I completely build another image package, or
should I just add the new ppp module to the ppp 2.2 package?
No, this is a
Argh. I just noticed that I'm going to have to rebuild the kernel to
support ppp 2.2. Should I completely build another image package, or
should I just add the new ppp module to the ppp 2.2 package?
Package: adduser
Version: 1.94-1
Users added when using usergroups should have home directories with
mode 2775, and all skeletal files should be g+w. This is how it is
currently created:
$ ls -la /mnt/home/imurdock
total 4
drwxr-xr-x 2 imurdock imurdock 1024 Oct 3 23:14 .
drwxrwsr-x 3 r
Date: Wed, 4 Oct 1995 08:46:30 -0400 (EDT)
From: Michael Alan Dorman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> After I got it to build and installed the new packages, PPP says:
>Sorry - PPP driver version 0.0.0 is out of date
> What is this? Does ppp 2.2 not work with linux 1.2.13?
By default
On Wed, 4 Oct 1995, Ian Murdock wrote:
> Has anyone gotten ppp 2.2 to work?
It has been shown to work on 1.2.XX. I've not done it.
> I finally got it to compile, after realizing that I had to install a
> few replacement kernel headers. Why are these kernel headers not in
> the standard distribu
On Tue, 3 Oct 1995, Michael E. Deisher wrote:
> Does anyone know why "get dirname.tar" has been disabled on the ftp
> site.
I would guess because a .notar file has (or had) been created in /debian.
Mike.
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Package: syslogd
Version: 1.2-11
klogd and syslogd are started too late in the boot process. The
result is that some daemons try to log information through syslogd,
but syslogd isn't listening yet. The problem is due to the fact
that the links in /etc/rc?.d are created by update-rc.d with the
de
Has anyone gotten ppp 2.2 to work?
I finally got it to compile, after realizing that I had to install a
few replacement kernel headers. Why are these kernel headers not in
the standard distribution of the kernel?
After I got it to build and installed the new packages, PPP says:
Sorry - PPP d
Package: adduser
Version: 1.94
Hi again..
This isnt a bug - more a note... If I create a directory in /etc/skel where
adduser copies the default files for new accounts in there it doesn't create
the directory. Would it be good to have this feature? ie: public_html
directories etc etc...
...Ka
texbin *does* depend on texlib. It is listed in the dependencies.
The dependencies however appear to be satisfied by an older revision
of texlib, that will not have all required scripts. Is this a bug
in dpkg? The poster didn't state the dpkg version.
Anyway it is not a texlib bug, so I close this
Raul Miller writes ("Re: Sizes and Packages in dselect"):
> Ian Jackson:
>This is where the problem starts :-). Obviously this can be done
>fairly easily if you're willing to have the user download a list of
>all the files included in every package, plus their sizes. I don't
>thin
Package: base
Version: 0.93.6-7
Libc: libc.so.4.6.27
Kernel etc: Linux morris 1.2.10 #1 Tue Jun 13 18:37:28 EST 1995 i486
Reporter: repair 0.1
Subject: root refused on this terminal and /etc/motd
I installed base with dpkg-1.0 and now I have my GPL in
/usr/doc/copyright back. That's why I did it.
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Ian Jackson said:
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On Wed, 4 Oct 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
[...]
> > For each file in the files list, find the deepest existing directory
> ^^^
>
> This is where the problem starts :-). Obviously this can be done
> fairly easily if you're willing to have the user download a list of
>
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