bruce was off-line

1996-08-17 Thread Bruce Perens
I have been off-line since Wednesday night, sorry if you've been trying to reach me. I got a middle ear infection that deleted my sense of balance for most of Thursday. I'm still a bit woozy today. I'll never ignore a sore throat or earache again. Bruce -- Clinton isn't perfect, but

exmh and Xauthority

1996-08-17 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Hi, I think it was on debian-devel that somebody asked about this subject. I replied that I had a rather simple setup using the .xserverrc-file, and a couple of people asked me to mail it to them. So I decided to send it to the list. Here it follows: #!/bin/sh # Generate a random key; Mui and Pe

Re: Does kernel-package assume /etc/psdatabase -> /boot/psdatabase?

1996-08-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Douglas Bates writes: >so after running /sbin/psupdate there is an attempt to find if >/boot/psdatabase-2.0.12 exists. The documentation for psupdate >indicates that it writes a new version of /etc/psdatabase. I checked >and indeed that file was updated. Am I supp

Re: Shadow problems

1996-08-17 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Miquel van Smoorenburg writes: >Which reminds me: RedHat is going to integrate PAM into their next release. >Perhaps now is a good time to look if we should consider using that too, >or if we think that shadow is good enough for now. Someone's already compiled libpa

Re: fhs

1996-08-17 Thread Richard Kettlewell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>> echo $HOME/Mailbox >$HOME/.forward > >Richard Kettlewell: >>This is a bad idea if the home directory is NFS-mounted from a remote >>system; IME file locking under NFS is very easy to get wrong. (Not >>that all mailers get locking right even on local file systems.

Does kernel-package assume /etc/psdatabase -> /boot/psdatabase?

1996-08-17 Thread Douglas Bates
Package: kernel-package Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: misc Maintainer: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: kernel-package Version: 2.03 Depends: perl (>= 5.002-8) Recommends: libc-dev, gcc Suggests: kernel-source I am installing a custom kernel using kernel-pack

Re: Shadow problems

1996-08-17 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (Michael Meskes) wrote: > I'm currently trying to finish the work on the shadow package. However, > there are some decision to make: > > 1) Should we change the login package to be shadow aware? Or should shadow > come with its own login (that works with and without shadow password files)? > O

Shadow problems

1996-08-17 Thread Michael Meskes
I'm currently trying to finish the work on the shadow package. However, there are some decision to make: 1) Should we change the login package to be shadow aware? Or should shadow come with its own login (that works with and without shadow password files)? Or should we use the shadow login as stan

Bug#818: echo builtin doesn't check for write errors

1996-08-17 Thread Buddha M. D. Buck
As of 1.14.6-4, this bug is still there... maybe $ type echo echo is a shell builtin $ echo foo >/dev/full $ echo $? 0 $ cat /dev/zero >/dev/full cat: write error: No space left on device $ echo $? 1 $ /bin/echo foo >/dev/full $ echo $? 0 $ file /bin/echo /bin/echo: ELF 32-bit LSB executable,

Bug#660: GDB gets address wrong of struct member in memory breakpoint

1996-08-17 Thread Buddha M. D. Buck
I'm looking at the backlog of forgotten bugs, and have verified that this one still exists. The original report was for gdb 4.12, but Ian Jackson verified that the problem exists under 4.14, and I just verified that it exists for 4.15.1-1. Should this be forwarded to the upstream maintainers of g

Unanswered problem reports by date

1996-08-17 Thread owner
The following problem reports have not yet been marked as `taken up' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or or `forwarded' by a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] OVER 16 MONTHS OLD - ATTENTION IS REQUIRED: Ref PackageKeywords/Subject Package maintainer 660 gdbGDB gets addr

Bug#4181: Searching for wrong active file)

1996-08-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Luckily I can provide you with a patch: diff -Nur orig/nn-6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1/db.c nn-6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1/db.c --- orig/nn-6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1/db.c Thu Nov 25 10:39:33 1993 +++ nn-6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1/db.c Sat Aug 17 00:46:41 1996 @@ -962,7 +962,7 @@ actfp = nntp_fopen_list("LIST"); } else

Bug#4182: grep on /proc/kcore dumps core

1996-08-17 Thread Bill Wohler
Package: grep Version: 2.0-5 Reproduce by: # grep foo /proc/kcore Segmentation fault (core dumped) While grepping on /proc/kcore is something you would not ordinarily do, grep should still not dump core. I originally stepped on this with "find / | xargs grep foo". Sys

Bug#4181: Searching for wrong active file

1996-08-17 Thread Martin Schulze
Package: nn Version: 6.5.0.b3.linux.1.1-01 Debian's INN has its active file located in /var/lib/news/active. The nn newsreader mentioned above unfortunately tries to read it from /usr/lib/news/active. Here's an strace excerpt: wazergate!joey:~> strace nn [...] uname({sys="Linux", node="wazergat

Uploaded zsh 3.0.0-1

1996-08-17 Thread Rob Leslie
Uploaded to master.debian.org. -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Date: 16 Aug 96 21:05 UT Format: 1.6 Distribution: unstable Urgency: Low Maintainer: Robert Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Source: zsh Version: 3.0.0-1 Binary: zsh Architecture: i386 source Description: zsh: A shell with lots of f

Bug#4174: Unable to use 'dc' fonts in latex2e

1996-08-17 Thread Emilio Lopes
Hi, this is not a bug. Due to copyright reasons the dc fonts, which use the T1 encoding, are no more in the mflib package. You got to get the package "mfdcfnt_1.0-1_all.deb"; It's on "Incoming/" right now (at least in our mirror here). Ciao, Emilio. > "RK" == Richard Kaszeta <[EMAIL PROTECT