savelog and restarting daemons

1997-06-05 Thread Andreas Jellinghaus
hello. can someone explain to me the background, why daemons (some, not all) are SIGHUP'ed or restarted, after their log files are rotated and what happends in the daemons code (what has to happen). and what would happen, if the logfile is moved and no SIGHUP is done. i could figure out, that sys

Re: plan copyright clarification

1997-06-05 Thread Guy Maor
"Colin R. Telmer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Can I then incorporate part of this email note into > /usr/doc/copyright and upload it into the free part of debian? Yes. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL P

Re: security/installation question regarding plan

1997-06-05 Thread Christoph Lameter
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote: >Questions: >1) What is /var/lib/netplan used for? It seems to me that the only > directory that is needed for netplan is /usr/lib/plan/netplan.dir. I cannot remember why this was needed. There are multiple binaries running though. One for the client a

Re: RFC: Splitting manpages into 2 packages

1997-06-05 Thread Ben Pfaff
=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 3 Jun 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > > One package with misc/general manpages and another with development > > > manpages. What do you think? > > What would be the relative sizes of each? In theory I'm in favor. [...] > So, if yo

security/installation question regarding plan

1997-06-05 Thread Colin R. Telmer
the program plan uses another executable called netplan to act as an IP network server to manage appointment files. Under the vanilla compilation and installation, the following happens with netplan: if run by root or setuid root, netplan switches to "nobody". The UID and GID of are compile

plan copyright clarification

1997-06-05 Thread Colin R. Telmer
Awhile ago I asked about the copyright in plan and there was a slight vagueness with the original. I have emailed the author and he replied that he would change the actual copyright file inthe next release, but not until then. Can I then incorporate part of this email note into /usr/doc/copyright a

Re: xfree twice on ftp.debian.org

1997-06-05 Thread Guy Maor
Mark Eichin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In fact, as X maintainer, I requested that the 3.1.2 sources be > removed, oh, at least a couple of weeks ago (when I figured out that > they had nothing to do with *any* current tree, not even xcontrib...) I just removed it. Guy -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FRO

Re: xfree twice on ftp.debian.org

1997-06-05 Thread Mark Eichin
In fact, as X maintainer, I requested that the 3.1.2 sources be removed, oh, at least a couple of weeks ago (when I figured out that they had nothing to do with *any* current tree, not even xcontrib...) Perhaps it only got removed from unstable? _Mark_ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: RFC: Splitting manpages into 2 packages

1997-06-05 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
On 3 Jun 1997, Ben Pfaff wrote: > > One package with misc/general manpages and another with development > > manpages. What do you think? > What would be the relative sizes of each? In theory I'm in favor. It would be something like this: newton:~/src/deb/manpages-1.15$ du -c man{1,4,5,6,7,8}

Re: Looking for New Maintainers

1997-06-05 Thread Colin R. Telmer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote: > plan Colin Telmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Christoph, I have been and will be out of town until June 16th. Before I left, I nearly completed packaging plan, but have not finished the postinst script stuff. This

Re: Debian's "Modify & Redistribute" Policy

1997-06-05 Thread Brian White
> > But your promise in not the point. The author wants this promise > > from everybody. It's the best way to be assured that improvements > > get distributed to everyone and not just a select group. > > What if the author decides to not accept a change? > > Say the author considers the intent

Burn Debian 1.3 on CD

1997-06-05 Thread Sami J. Laine
I'd like to burn Debian 1.3 to CD, in order to make installation to several machines easier (less wasted bandwidth), but I'm not sure what kind of directory hierarchy Debian 1.3 is expecting from CD. Installation instructions were quite clear about the fact that one can install Debian 1.3 using si

Re: libnet

1997-06-05 Thread Michael Alan Dorman
Michael Meskes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Am I correct that libnet-perl supersedes libnet? If so libnet should be > removed from the archive. You are correct. Mike. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROT

RE: reboot function

1997-06-05 Thread Michael Meskes
Yes, it's there. Thanks. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager| topsystem Systemhaus GmbH [EMAIL PROTECTED]| Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | 52146 Wuerselen Go SF49ers! Use Debian GNU/Linux! | Tel: (+49) 2405/4670-44 >--

xfree twice on ftp.debian.org

1997-06-05 Thread Michael Meskes
I've found two different source trees for xfree under bo XFree 3.1.2 and xfree86 3.2. I doubt we need/want both or is there a reason for this. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] topsystem Systemhaus GmbH| Phone: (+49) 2405/4670-44 Eu

Re: sendmail/deliver missing .dsc files

1997-06-05 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Both bo/source/mail/{sendmail,deliver}* are missing the .dsc files, >at ftp.debian.org. Is there not one for those, or is it lost? Sendmail and deliver are still in the old source format. I have already converted sendma

libnet

1997-06-05 Thread Michael Meskes
Am I correct that libnet-perl supersedes libnet? If so libnet should be removed from the archive. Michael -- Dr. Michael Meskes, Projekt-Manager | [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] topsystem Systemhaus GmbH| Phone: (+49) 2405/4670-44 Europark A2, Adenauerstr. 20 | Fax: (

sendmail/deliver missing .dsc files

1997-06-05 Thread Karl M. Hegbloom
Both bo/source/mail/{sendmail,deliver}* are missing the .dsc files, at ftp.debian.org. Is there not one for those, or is it lost? -- Karl M. Hegbloom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.inetarena.com/~karlheg Portland, OR USA Debian GNU 1.3 Linux 2.1.36 AMD K5 PR-133 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS

Re: deleting binary soft link on ftp sites

1997-06-05 Thread James R. Van Zandt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > In anticipation of Debian being released (publically)for platforms > other than ix86 it would be a good idea to phase out the use of > the binary -> binary-i386 link on the ftp sites as this could > cause confusion. Is there anything that actually uses this link? I do

ircd up for grabs

1997-06-05 Thread Paul Haggart
Anyone want the ircd package? Christopher Clameter handed it off to me, but I don't think I even managed to upload a 'new maintainer' version. I've got enough under my belt as it is.. :) -- Paul Haggart - phaggart at cybertap dot com - Debian Linux - PGP 0xD61313E9 "Is all the world jails an

Details of problems caused by Tecra patch required

1997-06-05 Thread Philip Hands
Hi, I sent some mail to the author of the Tecra kernel patch, Jens Maurer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, and he replies thus: > Philip Hands wrote: > > One thing that I thought you might be interested in is that for a while > > during testing, the kernel patch was included on the soon to be released > > D

1.3 Installation

1997-06-05 Thread Richard L Shepherd
I just installed frozen on a machine here destined to be a router. I used the May-20 disks and the ftp method within dselect. All went pretty well except: in the Packages file "at" is versioned "at_3.1.6-1.deb" while the actual file in bo/binary-i386/admin is at_3.1.7-1.deb. I used dpkg