Bug#1801: tar manpage missing

1995-11-10 Thread James A. Robinson
> I am considering starting a project which would: > a) define a standard template for man pages in Linux. I know it would > appear that one already exists, but it turns out that what really, really > exists is a good overall description of what should be included in the > man pages (in /usr/doc/

Bug#1804: manpage of irc missing

1995-11-10 Thread James A. Robinson
> Package: irc > > The manpage of irc is missing. The program is IrcII, so: [lestat:~]$ apropos ircII ircII (1)- interface to the Internet Relay Chat system My personal opinion is that apropos should do fuzzy matchs to catch things like this. :) Jim

Bug#1839: Getty doesn't work at high speeds

1995-11-10 Thread Bruce Perens
Package: miscutils Subject: Important getty patch Date: Fri, 10 Nov 1995 09:41:00 -0600 (CST) From: Jeff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's a quick 'n simple patch to allow getty to work with serial port speeds above 38400. This is important wh

Unanswered problem reports

1995-11-10 Thread iwj10
The following problem reports have not yet been marked as `taken up' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OVER 9 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED: Ref PackageKeywords/Subject Submitter 379 mount Repeatable mount(1) problem wi Bill Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED] OVER 8 MONTH

Bug#1838: ypbind shouldnt start with ypserv

1995-11-10 Thread Karl Ferguson
Package: netstd Version: 1.21-1 Hi... When running a NIS server, ypbind also starts on the machine that ypserv is running on. The ypbind daemon doesnt really need to run at all IMO, I killed it and it appears to be working normally. Regards, ...Karl -- |

Bug#1837: ncftp timeout is too short

1995-11-10 Thread Karl Ferguson
> Package: ncftp > Version: 2.1.0-1 > > The `ncftp' program has a tendency to be too impatient; it won't wait > more than 30 seconds for a command to complete. This is because the > default timeout is this short. A more suitable value might be 2 or 3 > minutes. Alternatively, the "host is not re

Bug#1832: Tar dumps core: film at 11

1995-11-10 Thread James D. Freels
>Old-Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-To: Austin Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Resent-From: Austin Donnelly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Resent-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Resent-Date: Thu, 09 Nov 1995 22:03:02 GMT >Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 21:55:22 + (GMT) >From: Austin Donnelly <[EM

Re: Where are the Updates

1995-11-10 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Thu, 9 Nov 1995, Ian Murdock wrote: > > BTW, I got copies of everything again this morning that I moved into > view yesterday--would it be possible for the files to be removed from > the Incoming directory in Europe after ftp.debian.org has downloaded > them? > Ian M. good question.

Bug#1833: srb@cuci.nl: patch for Debian sysklogd package]

1995-11-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Bruce Perens writes: > Note that Stephen is the author of the Procmail and SmartList programs > (which operate our list server). Turning off the fsync is indeed a big > win on a machine that operates mailing list. There may be 4 syslog() calls > for each subscriber every time a message goes to a ma

Re: Where are the Updates

1995-11-10 Thread Matthew Bailey
On Fri, 10 Nov 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: > > "deletes to 0%" ? Yes If I set do_deletes to 0% inside of mirror then say I mailed you the log file which could be parsed by procmail to delete the files that I retreived. Then they would stay on my end till Ian M. moved them. -- Matthew S. Bailey

Re: Where are the Updates

1995-11-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Matthew Bailey writes ("Re: Where are the Updates"): > I will set do deletes to 0% for that mirror. That means after it is in > the incoming.uk directory then Ian J. Can delete them on his end either > that or move them into a subdirectory that I can exclude so that the > packages are available

Bug#1833: srb@cuci.nl: patch for Debian sysklogd package]

1995-11-10 Thread Bruce Perens
Note that Stephen is the author of the Procmail and SmartList programs (which operate our list server). Turning off the fsync is indeed a big win on a machine that operates mailing list. There may be 4 syslog() calls for each subscriber every time a message goes to a mailing list. This ends up bein

Bug#1836: expect core dumps

1995-11-10 Thread Matthew Swift
Package: expect Version: 5.16.3 Revision: 3 The following dumps core when put into a file and executed. I realize I should probably spawn su inside a shell, but I don't think expect should core dump even so. #!/usr/bin/expect -f # Give my roommate a way to safely turn off my machine without gi

Bug#1837: ncftp timeout is too short

1995-11-10 Thread Ian Jackson
Package: ncftp Version: 2.1.0-1 The `ncftp' program has a tendency to be too impatient; it won't wait more than 30 seconds for a command to complete. This is because the default timeout is this short. A more suitable value might be 2 or 3 minutes. Alternatively, the "host is not responding to c

Re: Where are the Updates

1995-11-10 Thread Ian Murdock
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 13:34:54 -0500 (EST) From: Matthew Bailey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Ian M. Are you moving files into the tree? Are you also moving the files from incoming.uk over into the tree as well? Yes, of course. BTW, I got copies of everything again this morning that I moved in

Bug#1833: srb@cuci.nl: patch for Debian sysklogd package]

1995-11-10 Thread Martin Schulze
Hallo Bruce Perens! }Note that Stephen is the author of the Procmail and SmartList programs }(which operate our list server). Turning off the fsync is indeed a big }win on a machine that operates mailing list. There may be 4 syslog() calls }for each subscriber every time a message goes to a mailin