The latest release (shadow-970502-2) has a bug in libmisc/mail.c
that causes login to segfault when checking for new mail. Yes,
I have tested this version before releasing it (really!), but
unfortunately I had MAIL_CHECK_ENAB disabled (by mistake) on my
machine and the bug didn't show up.
Workaro
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Format: 1.5
Date: Thu, 24 Apr 1997 19:12:58 +0200
Source: makedev
Binary: makedev
Architecture: source i386
Version: 1.6-5
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Andreas Jellinghaus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
makedev- Creates special device
The beginning of support for such a scheme is in the works for the
next major release of dpkg-ftp.
The user interface part is taking me a bit longer than I had hoped ---
expect a release in maybe 5--10 days.
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Request for comments: a "debian-daemon" project
Using FTP for a while to keep my system up-to-date, I see several
things that, I think, cannot be done easily:
* Data transfer minimization (with rsync-like algorithm) where that
could be applied. That does not include, eg, compiled binaries
Request for comments: a "Debian System Method" for dpkg
Because of its owner having forgotten the debian-CD in a train, I
recently had to install a debian system on a PC. We still had the
installation floppies we had used for another machine on the same
ethernet, and had access to that ma
Hi,
>>"Jim" == Jim Van Zandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jim> I think the ".. pathname component" problem deserves some
Jim> attention. What does anybody think about these steps?
Jim> 1) Incoming Debian source packages should be automatically
Jim> scanned, and offending files flagged.
Jim> 2) GN
Given that we already have "sp" and a bunch of other sgml tools, it
would be nice if someone packaged jade as well -- since it has decent
conversion tools, as metioned below...
[from http://www.jclark.com/jade/]
What is Jade?
Jade is an implementation of the DSSSL style language. The current vers
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
Bart Schuller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Also, I'd hope that if xterm now does color as standard, that fact is
> reflected in its terminfo entry.
No, because if you do that, programs like slrn will try to use colour, which
means they are almost impossib
I have tried it and set -e is not propagated into a subprocess.
This is the script I ran successfully:
#/!bin/sh
set -e
suidregister /etc/exports clameter clameter 4755
Please investigate what is wrong with your system.
On Fri, 16 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
>> "Christoph" == Chris
On May 16, J.H.M.Dassen wrote
> On May 15, John Goerzen wrote
> > Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > > rxvt (and rxvt-xpm) always exports the variable "COLORTERM" so that
> > > programs can check for color support. As a side note, when XPM support
> > > has been
> >
> > Unfortunately, I
> "Christoph" == Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christoph> To my knowledge set -e
Christoph> is only valid for the currently executing scripts and
Christoph> not a subshell.
Try it and see.
It is why `suidregister` is not working when called from postinst
script
On May 15, John Goerzen wrote
> Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > rxvt (and rxvt-xpm) always exports the variable "COLORTERM" so that
> > programs can check for color support. As a side note, when XPM support
> > has been
>
> Unfortunately, I know of no programs that make use of this va
Brian Mays <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> rxvt (and rxvt-xpm) always exports the variable "COLORTERM" so that programs
> can check for color support. As a side note, when XPM support has been
Unfortunately, I know of no programs that make use of this variable.
In fact, I believe that ncurses do
> Why isn't there a glimpse or dig search on the bugtracker list???
I have had httdig set up to index (parts) of the web site for
quite a while. I have chosen to not index the bug tracking yet as
there seems to be a problem with Roxen that is causing reindexing
to start from scratch every time. G
On May 13, Todd Harper wrote
>
> I'm curious about how dpkg handles the "Conflicts:" line of packages
> that are already installed on the machine. If package X conflicts
> with package Y, and Y is already installed, I cannot install X. This
> is normal. BUT... if X is installed, what happens i
To my knowledge
set -e
is only valid for the currently executing scripts and not a subshell.
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
>> "Christoph" == Christoph Lameter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> [... in a release announcement ...]
>Christoph> May fix situations leadin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote:
> Oh yes, pathanmes with .. components would _also_ break the
> algorithm.
Kai Henningsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>Of course, those break everything. I'd insist of having no tarballs even
>in the Debian source archive that contain those.
>
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