Bug#1887: cfengine 1.2.14-2: documentation errors

On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Chris Fearnley wrote: > The info documentation included refers to /usr/local/bin/cfengine when > Debian's cfengine is installed in /usr/bin/cfengine. I'm closing this without action. I've looked at the cfengine info files, and I think it's clear from the context that the re

Bug#1893: ncurses man pages need to get tbl invoked

PACKAGE: ncurses-* VERSION: 1.9.4 The following needs to be added at the head of the infocmp(1ncurses) and addch(3ncurses) man pages in order to get tbl invoked before groff. '\" t .\" Note: this must be run through tbl before nroff. .\" The magic cookie on the first line triggers this under som

Bug#1891: bug report

On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Gordon Russell wrote: > Packages: base > > The /etc/magic file does not allow the file command to identify > elf .a files from aout .a files very easily. Indeed, an elf archive > : archive > but an aout archive > : random archive > > Would someone update this to something mo

Re: convenience script for building a.out packages

On Wed, 22 Nov 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: > Bill Mitchell writes ("convenience script for building a.out packages"): > > This is a script I've placed in /usr/local/bin/aout on my system. > > It's intended as an aid in building a.out packages on an > > elf-ized debian system. It's invoked as: > >

dipconfig script ...

If you are using DIP to connect to your Internet Service Provider please test the following script. It should create a working DIP script for you. If doesn't work for you please send me a short email with the following informations: - How do you login. The information should look like this: L

Bug#1877: at/batch do not mail output with sendmail installed

Harald Schueler writes ("Bug#1877: at/batch do not mail output with sendmail installed"): > Package: at > Version: 2.9a-1 > > The commands "at" and "batch" do not mail their output if sendmail is > installed as MTA instead of smail. This is because "atrun" uses > "/usr/sbin/rmail" (from smail) for

Re: convenience script for building a.out packages

Bill Mitchell writes ("convenience script for building a.out packages"): > This is a script I've placed in /usr/local/bin/aout on my system. > It's intended as an aid in building a.out packages on an > elf-ized debian system. It's invoked as: > > aout { normal command line } Can I recommend

Bug#1892: forwarded message from Cron Daemon

Package: bsdutils Version: 1.3-1 I got the following piece of mail from my regular backup script; it was trying to do a wall, and obviously found some utmp entries with '??' in the tty field. I *think* this is probably a bug in bsdutils in that it tried to write to those terminals, but it might b

Re: I have to leave for a while :(

kenny writes: kenny> a2gs - Is this superceded by genscript? kenny> a2ps - Pretty much a dead I think we should throw these two out. In July, I filed bug#1112 against a2gs. This bug is still open. As Kenny could provide no solution (IMHO it's an upstream problem), I tried some other, s

Re: Elf pppd/kernel

Alvar Bray: > Who has taken over from Bruce as the kernel source package > maintainer? I haven't been able to find anyone willing to take on that task so far, and am thus still the kernel maintainer. I greatly appreciate your helping with the PPP files, as I have a lot on my plate at the moment.

Bug#1883: compress" missing?

> I think in this case we > should ignore the patent issue like everyone else does. You do it, please. I have too much to lose. I'd be happy to see you (or anyone else) establish a secondary distribution site for patent-infringing software. > the bin86 package is "for personal use only" (or some

I have to leave for a while :(

Dear All, My PhD thesis is entering its final stages, and I have several job offers dependent on an early completion date, so I've been forced - against my will - to suspend all my Linux and Debian activities. I have been the maintainer of the following packages... a2gs - Is this superced

Bug#1883: compress" missing?

Bruce Perens: > I was sort of hoping that compress would be replaced by "gzip" throughout > the world, and thus we would not have to deal with its hassles. That would be the case if gzip was in the public domain, but it is under the GPL which may be too restrictive for commercial UNIX vendors...

Bug#1883: compress" missing?

I was sort of hoping that compress would be replaced by "gzip" throughout the world, and thus we would not have to deal with its hassles. I don't think anyone would object to your distributing certain contributed packages from outside the US. If you'd like to do that for compress, please package i

Bug#1879: Emacs shell mode weirdness - looks like C code bug

CD Rasmussen writes: > Ian, I think the problem might be local to your system. I'm running a > pretty virgin system that was recently built from scratch and I can > run that command in emacs with no problem. Perhaps it's something to do with my environment ? A copy is below. > Was there anythin

Bug#1891: bug report

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Bug#1881: Majordomo UID wrong?

Karl Ferguson writes: >>The preinst calls adduser. The package is supposed to then use >>whatever uid/gid it finds in the passwd/group files. > >Are you forgetting NIS (Yp) systems? If I had already a UID 101, and it >decided to add user "101" would this conflict? If that happens it's a bug in

Bug#1881: Majordomo UID wrong?

> >>>It seems that after I installed the majordomo package it placed the > >>>folowwing entry in /etc/passwd: > >>> > >>>majordom:*:102:102::/usr/lib/majordomo:/bin/false > >> > >>What is supposed to happen is that the preinst creates a group and > >>user for majordomo; files are supposed to be in

Bug#1883: compress" missing?

>Source can be found for example in the FreeBSD distribution, and is under >the standard BSD copyright which shouldn't be a problem for us... Using compress (but not uncompress) infringes on Welch's patent. Perhaps it could be made available under "non-free"? As far as I understand, there are no

Re: Bug#1881: Majordomo UID wrong?

brian white writes: >>>It seems that after I installed the majordomo package it placed the >>>folowwing entry in /etc/passwd: >>> >>>majordom:*:102:102::/usr/lib/majordomo:/bin/false >> >>What is supposed to happen is that the preinst creates a group and >>user for majordomo; files are supposed to

Bug#1881: Majordomo UID wrong?

>>It seems that after I installed the majordomo package it placed the >>folowwing entry in /etc/passwd: >> >>majordom:*:102:102::/usr/lib/majordomo:/bin/false > >What is supposed to happen is that the preinst creates a group and >user for majordomo; files are supposed to be in the .deb file owned b

Elf pppd/kernel

Hi Everybody, Who has taken over from Bruce as the kernel source package maintainer? I have taken over from Ian M as ppp package maintainer and I would very much like to coordinate with them to update the kernel ppp code with the latest versions from the ppp-2.2.0c ppp release? The files in que

Bug#1883: compress" missing?

Bruce Perens wrote: > Unfortunately, "compress" infringes the Unisys - Terry Welch patent. Hmm. Tell Unisys that Slackware and FreeBSD violate their patent, they will sue Walnut Creek and win. There will be no Slackware and FreeBSD any more, and everyone will switch to Debian GNU/Linux soon. So

Bug#1881: Majordomo UID wrong?

Karl Ferguson writes: >It seems that after I installed the majordomo package it placed the >folowwing entry in /etc/passwd: > >majordom:*:102:102::/usr/lib/majordomo:/bin/false > >Ok, that's fine but doing an "ls -l majordomo" in /var/lib produces >this: > >drwxrwsr-x 4 101 majordom 102

Bug#1891: bug report

Packages: base The /etc/magic file does not allow the file command to identify elf .a files from aout .a files very easily. Indeed, an elf archive : archive but an aout archive : random archive Would someone update this to something more meaningful? Thanks, Gordon

libreadline-2.0-7

Date: 21 Nov 95 19:05 UT Source: libreadline Binary: libreadline Version: 2.0-7 Description: libreadline: GNU readline and history libraries. Priority: Low Changes: * Install all info documentation and examples. * Added extended description. * Install libhistory.so with version number. Sugge

Bug#1890: dselect update from packages.gz

Package: dpkg Version: 1.0.6 I don't know if this is a bug because I don't know if the update utility supports updating from a gzipd packages file.? I thought I could do an update of the packages information with a gzipd packages file but it didn't seem to work quite well: -- Updating available

Bug#1884: at 2.9a-1 Documentation error

:) for the few of you that have IRC'ed before you will understand that :) Fixed the problem with drive space on debian.org there is now 270ish and will free up 70 more megs after my 4 day weekend... PLEASE don't asked me about this is was _really_ dumb :) -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall

Re: FTP site taking an xmas vacation

Bruce Perens spoke unto the world and said: >I'd like to hear from sites that can provide 400MB of FTP area >to serve as an alternate site. I can provide 400 Meg of diskspace until late January if needed. My link is over a 56K though. Darren <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <

Bug#1881: Majordomo UID wrong?

> >It seems that after I installed the majordomo package it placed the > >folowwing entry in /etc/passwd: > > > >majordom:*:102:102::/usr/lib/majordomo:/bin/false > > > >Ok, that's fine but doing an "ls -l majordomo" in /var/lib produces > >this: > > > >drwxrwsr-x 4 101 majordom 1024 Nov