www.debian.org isn't mirroring.

1997-05-15 Thread Shaya Potter
The website hasn't mirrored the mailing list archive (maybe everything) since last saturday. I checked cgi.debian.org and the lists were up to date there. Oh, just wondering when the search will work. Thanks, Shaya -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to

Re: suidmanager 0.6 uploaded to master.debian.org

1997-05-15 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
> "Christoph" == Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [... in a release announcement ...] Christoph> May fix situations leading to something described in Christoph> #9435, #9582 (still not clear how such a thing can Christoph> happen). This fixes the bug. With s

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What kind of performance do you get with your md devices? Haven't really paid close attention. > It seems to me (operating in a vacuum not knowing what other disks > you have) that you'd do better by shifting your hdb (primary slave > IDE disk) to hdc (

Search engine for bug-track

1997-05-15 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Why isn't there a glimpse or dig search on the bugtracker list??? -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.2 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: dpkg verify mode for security?

1997-05-15 Thread Chris Fearnley
'Amos Shapira wrote:' > >I was asking over Linux-ISP about doing cleanup after breakins and got >many "use tripwire" answers, and one which says that RPM has a verify >mode which checks for files which were changed since they were >installed. Can the dpkg maintainers consider adding such a feature

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Pete Templin
On 15 May 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As my system is currently laid out, I'm not suffering from any shortage of > > swap _space_ (240MB allocated, max seen in use is 33MB), I'm merely trying > > to sneak out the best possible performance without sp

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Michael Neuffer
On 15 May 1997, Rob Browning wrote: > Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As my system is currently laid out, I'm not suffering from any shortage of > > swap _space_ (240MB allocated, max seen in use is 33MB), I'm merely trying > > to sneak out the best possible performance without spe

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Rob Browning
Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As my system is currently laid out, I'm not suffering from any shortage of > swap _space_ (240MB allocated, max seen in use is 33MB), I'm merely trying > to sneak out the best possible performance without spending a buck. In the end I imagine you'll be m

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Pete Templin
On 15 May 1997, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > You can stripe swap without using md - the kernel does it for you > ever since Linux 1.3.2 :) > > Read the "swapon" manpage, option "-p". The kernel may allocate pages on a round-robin basis, but I'd like to tuck my swapspace into my md disk for b

Re: Pbs with locale and fonts

1997-05-15 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lees) wrote on 15.05.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 14 May 1997, Mathieu Guillaume wrote: > > > I've encountered two little problems in hamm. > > First one shows while using dselect. I have the following message several > > times: > > > > [perl i18n stuff removed] > >

Re: New Package Developer Needs A Little Help

1997-05-15 Thread Paul Serice
J.H.M.Dassen wrote: > > On May 15, Paul Serice wrote > > I have the latest dpkg-dev, but my dpkg-shlibdeps gives me an error > > every time it's run -- even when it's run from "good" packages like > > hello and tar. > > > > The error is as follows: > > > > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown outp

Elm Vulnerability

1997-05-15 Thread John Goerzen
Hello, There has recently been announced a security hole in Elm on bugtraq and subsequently on linux-security that could lead to unauthorized to, at minimum, the mail spool for every user on the system. Debian's default Elm for stable (1.2.x) is Elm. This version of Elm is vulnerable. The defau

Re: Bug#9813: rxvt 2.20-4 : Bad setting of TERM environ variable

1997-05-15 Thread Brian Mays
>From the original bug report by John Goerzen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > rxvt-xpm, at least, is setting TERM to be xterm. It should be set to > "rxvt". Debian's termcap/terminfo (as well as that of every other Linux and > many other modern OSs as well) has an rxvt entry, and it should be used in > t

Uploaded cnews cr.g7-5 (source i386) to master (fwd)

1997-05-15 Thread Pete Templin
The debian lists don't accept postings from root. Here's a message that was diverted to me. Pete -- Pete Templin, Debian List Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 04:21:27 -0400 From: The Super User <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-deve

Re: shadow-970502 released (fwd)

1997-05-15 Thread Pete Templin
The debian lists don't accept submissions from system daemons such as root, admin, etc. Here's a submission that was diverted to me. Pete -- Pete Templin, Debian List Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: 15 May 1997 05:01:19 - From: MACN admin <[

Uploaded nntp 1.5.12.1-2 (source i386) to master (fwd)

1997-05-15 Thread Pete Templin
The debian lists don't accept submissions from system daemons such as root. Here's a posting that was diverted to me. Pete -- Pete Templin, Debian List Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 04:21:22 -0400 From: The Super User <[EMAIL P

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Daniel Quinlan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Pete Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I'm having some difficulty creating "special" swapfiles to be able to test >> swapping to/from an "md" device (raid0). I've followed the manpage hints > >You must give the full

dpkg/DEITY feature request (was Re: e2fsprogs_1.07-1 still in 'experimental' !)

1997-05-15 Thread Andy Mortimer
On May 14, Yann Dirson wrote > > Version 1.07-1 in experimental of e2fsprogs has been superceeded by > 1.10-2 in unstable. I think it should be removed. (experimental > shadows unstable on my system; I think this is normal...) This shadowing is all to do with the order of directories at the [U]pd

Re: New Package Developer Needs A Little Help

1997-05-15 Thread J.H.M.Dassen
On May 15, Paul Serice wrote > I have the latest dpkg-dev, but my dpkg-shlibdeps gives me an error > every time it's run -- even when it's run from "good" packages like > hello and tar. > > The error is as follows: > > dpkg-shlibdeps: warning: unknown output from ldd on 'Crafty': > /libm.

New Package Developer Needs A Little Help

1997-05-15 Thread Paul Serice
I've been given the go ahead to bundle up Crafty -- a very strong, free chess program. It's my first package, and I have two minor problems, and I thought this might be the place to get some advice. I have the latest dpkg-dev, but my dpkg-shlibdeps gives me an error every time it's run -- even wh

Re: Pbs with locale and fonts

1997-05-15 Thread Tom Lees
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Mathieu Guillaume wrote: > I've encountered two little problems in hamm. > First one shows while using dselect. I have the following message several > times: > [perl i18n stuff removed] Basically, you need to set LC_ALL, as well/instead of LANG. > Second thing is the fonts

Re: Imminent Checker upgrade release

1997-05-15 Thread Mark Eichin
> but are small anyway) are about 120 Mb uncompiled; compiling them takes just > under 200 IIRC. Actually, xfree86 (which generates a bunch of .deb files) is a 360M source + build tree, not counting the resulting .deb files themselves... There's probably not much bigger than that in the debian r

which group ?

1997-05-15 Thread Christian Meder
Hi, I'm in the process of packaging amanda (a network backup system - client-server). In the install guide it's recommended to install the binaries under a non privileged user and put this user in a group which has raw access to the disk devices. So I thought I take the user backup and the group d