Hello Craig,
I would guess that you are one of Aaron Sloman's students from the
University of Birmingham in the UK. Am I right?
My comment about NATO having improved was in respect of their
previous treatment of countries like Portugal, Greece and Turkey as
"sensitive areas".
My reservations abo
> "Jason" == Jason Gunthorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Jason> If nobody can see why this would be a bad idea I will
Jason> deploy this system on db.debian.org and the debian.org
Jason> machines in the near future. I hope that when lsh becomes
Jason> usable a similar patch to
Hi all,
I would like a couple people to look over this patch I have made to SSH.
It creates a new option that allows ssh to lookup RSA authentication keys
in a global file modeled after the shadow password file. The intent is to
allow users to place their RSA ssh key into the ldap directory and t
This is also a very big issue for those who install "groups" of packages during
the install. I know that I was recently bitten by this when I chose to install
a number of "groups" of packages, and didn't realize that the masquerading and
redirecting versions of inetd were installed. It took some
Hello,
We can do, without GIF, animations and we can generate images from within the
JavaScript source file ( no need to send tons of requests).
The technique has been successfully tested with Navigator 3.0x, 4.0x
and 4.6, and with Internet Explorer 4.0.
This MAY work with Opera ( JavaScript 1.1
*Nathan E Norman wrote:
> Mr. Lapeyre,
>
> You do realise that pavlov.midco.net is part of the DNS rotation
> http.us.debian.org?
No, I didn't. I was using the mirror. I am in error. Obviously
the connections to several ports on my machine were a legitmate part
of the transfer of data to my
Now that GNOME 1.0.40 is out for beta testing, I had a look at what needs
to be updated in potato.
Needless to say it would be great to have an up to date GNOME in potato
before the freeze...
==
Prerequisites for the gnome libraries
audiofile-0.1.9.tar.gz Audio file format libr
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On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, John Lapeyre wrote:
: Dear Security Staff:
:I received 2086 connection attempts at several ports on September 22.
: The attempts were made from IP address pavlov.midco.net [24.220.0.13]
: The machine whose ports
On 25 Sep 1999, Craig Brozef wrote:
>
> Uhm, they did just bomb Yugoslavia into the stone age...
and
> I hope that Debian does not resort to begging bald-faced liars.
Would it not be better if the money is spent on Debian than if on warfare?
--free software, not bombs--
ciao
Helen McCall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have just been looking at the NATO web site, and they appear to have
> changed for the better in recent years. Now they make no reference to
> sensitive areas. Their science and technology programmes are now more
> generally aimed at promoting world pea
Country Codes is an ISO 3166 country code finder. I'll upload it as
"countrycodes". Here is some example output:
% iso3166 -d ftp.chiark.greenend.org.uk
Domain name : ftp.chiark.greenend.org.uk
Top domain : uk (Great Bretain (iso 3166 code is gb))
Sub domain #1: org (Organizations)
On Fri, 24 September 1999 09:12:31 +0100, Matthew Vernon wrote:
> This is all very well, except for those of us who email from work, and
> have their PGP key at home...
Best point of all.
At work even on a "private" box my co-workers also have root
on it. I don't dare having my private key there.
* "Raul" == Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Raul> On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 10:11:17AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
>> > Ii I install a daemon, I want to use it.
Raul> Do you want it for personal use, or do you want it available as a
Raul> public service?
If I install a finger daemon, I wa
Greetings, I originally send this message to debian-powerpc and was informed
that this was a general problem. Any help would be appreciated.
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On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 08:18:04PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 02:51:36AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> > On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 07:28:57AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > > David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > > Instead of each developer chose what packages are and
Joey Hess writes:
> Ideally, if debconf were used, this one question would be asked the first
> time you install a daemon, and all other daemons would inherit it
> thereafter. Quite easily done with debconf..
That's the ideal, but what is the policy now? Should chrony ask a question
in its postin
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 10:11:17AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
> > Ii I install a daemon, I want to use it.
Do you want it for personal use, or do you want it available as a
public service?
--
Raul
"Jaldhar H. Vyas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 24 Sep 1999, Siggy Brentrup wrote:
>
> > In my understanding the bible packages belong into contrib *at
> > best*, since it's value to the public is at least questionable if not
> > offensive to muslims, buddhists(no not to them), hindus ...
>
>
* Raul Miller said:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:27:51PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> > The proposal, as I can see it, is to write a PAM module that could
> > be added to /etc/pam.d/passwd to ask whether the just-changed root
> > password should be cloned into the sashroot account. And that's a
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 09:29:35PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:39:41AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 04:26:27PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > > Also use of computer in planes is discouraged and prohibited during
> > > landfall
> > > and ta
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 13:59:16 +0100, Helen McCall wrote:
> What is needed is for someone to compile a list of all Debian Developers
> and their geographical addresses.
We're already doing that - see https://db.debian.org .
Ray
--
Cyberspace, a final frontier. These are the voyages of my messa
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 03:32:25PM +0200, Martin Bialasinski wrote:
> Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Bzzt. Security is more important than usability. We're not building
>> windows 2000 here...
>
> Ii I install a daemon, I want to use it.
That doesn't account for daemons installed by
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:27:51PM +0200, Marek Habersack wrote:
> The proposal, as I can see it, is to write a PAM module that could
> be added to /etc/pam.d/passwd to ask whether the just-changed root
> password should be cloned into the sashroot account. And that's a
> really elegant and clean s
* "Michael" == Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Michael> On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:02:44AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
>> The Doctor What wrote:
>> > Why shouldn't *all* daemon packages ask these questions, and whether to
>> > even
>> > run *upon install*?
>>
>> Because we need to decrease
Previously Atsuhito Kohda wrote:
> From: Josip Rodin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > This bug is already known, reported, and is promised to be fixed in
> > the next dpkg(-source) upload.
I uploaded dpkg 1.4.1.11 yesterday which fixes this. It is currently
sitting in Incoming, so keep a close look at your
Hello again Joey,
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Joey Hess wrote:
> Helen McCall wrote:
> > In the meanwhile; If you are prepared to accept funding from such a
> > source, there is always NATO. They fund many such things if they are
> > giving good participation to what NATO calls "Sensitive Areas".
>
> W
http://www.linux-expo.com/international/index.html
bst regards.
Frederic.
Estimado Amigo y
Hermano:
Cierto día una voz en mi interior me pidió hacer algo por este
mundo, el único mundo donde podemos vivir.
Quiero pedirte en nombre de todos los
niños y las personas que sufren el dolor de perder a sus seres qu
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:02:44AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> The Doctor What wrote:
> > Why shouldn't *all* daemon packages ask these questions, and whether to even
> > run *upon install*?
>
> Because we need to decrease the number of questions asked at install time,
> not increase it.
Bzzt. Secu
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 03:00:35AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> > I inherited this when I inherited the package in November of 1995. It
> > was setup this way so that after the removal of the previous Perl
> > package and before the installation of a new Perl package
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 02:42:28AM -0700, Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> I notice that bash doesn't do any shenanigans like this. Is this a
> relic of bygone days and I don't need to do this funky stuff anymore?
> That would make things much easier for me.
Nothing to do but test :)
Ben
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 02:23:42PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
> >
> > make bzImage HOSTCC=/usr/bin/egcs
>
> Indeed it does. I was too busy looking for a way to do it in the
> environment... Can one use this with make-kpkg as well?
Probably not, perhaps you can make a patch...
--
Debian G
Hello,
just in case anybody is interested, i put the deb package for fwctl on my
experimatel debian archive: http://sites.inka.de/lina/debian/
fwctl*deb (depends in libnetwork-ipv4add-perl) is a tool which can generate
ipchains rules from a higher level config file.
The package is not yet start
>
> make bzImage HOSTCC=/usr/bin/egcs
Indeed it does. I was too busy looking for a way to do it in the
environment... Can one use this with make-kpkg as well?
---
Filip Van Raemdonck
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
member of the
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 02:14:11PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
>
> Doesn't work either:
>
> lucretia:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12-2.2.12$ export
> HOSTCC=/usr/bin/egcc
> lucretia:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12-2.2.12$ echo $HOSTCC $CC
> /usr/bin/egcc /usr/bin/egcc
> lucretia:/usr/src/kernel
Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> Of course not, if you want to change the compiler for stuff like dependencies,
> you need to set HOSTCC. But for the problem at hand, which is compiling the
> actual kernel with gcc272, CC works just fine.
Doesn't work either:
lucretia:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12-2.2.12$
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:31:08PM +0200, Filip Van Raemdonck wrote:
>
> lucretia:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12-2.2.12$ alias gcc=egcc
> lucretia:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12-2.2.12$ make bzImage
> gcc -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -o scripts/mkdep
> scripts/mkdep.c
> make: gc
Marco Budde <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Why? What is the advantage of using doc-base?
You may want to read the documentation of doc-base...
It is always a good idea to use a generic format which can
automatically converted to all useful formats instead of using one
special format. doc-base give
Herbert Xu wrote:
>
> You can easily override this on the command line or in the environment.
>
well...
Script started on Sat Sep 25 08:28:41 1999
lucretia:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.2.12-2.2.12$ ls -l /usr/bin/{,e}gcc
ls: /usr/bin/gcc: No such file or directory
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:39:41AM -0400, Branden Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 04:26:27PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> > Also use of computer in planes is discouraged and prohibited during landfall
> > and takeoff, as it interfer with the onboard radio equipement ...
>
> This is a fict
* Michael Neuffer said:
> * Raul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990923 16:15]:
> > On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 07:32:50AM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote:
> > > Couldn't sash include a PAM module that would change the password to
> > > match root's password whenever it was changed? Or am I oversimplifying
> > >
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 12:15:06AM -0500, BugScan reporter wrote:
> Package: bluefish (main)
> Maintainer: Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 45747 bluefish:
This bug is about an alpha compilation error, which was diagnosed and
fixed in July. The fix is not yet released, so I'm talk
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 02:51:36AM -0500, David Starner wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 07:28:57AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> > David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > Instead of each developer chose what packages are and aren't useful
> > > to them, why don't we look at the popularity conte
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote:
> I inherited this when I inherited the package in November of 1995. It
> was setup this way so that after the removal of the previous Perl
> package and before the installation of a new Perl package, there was
> still a Perl available. Since we always needed a Per
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Karl M. Hegbloom)
Subject: XEmacs21 project status.
Date: 23 Sep 1999 14:40:37 -0700
> As I mentioned, I will be returning to work soonish... within a week
> or two. I just verified that an anon CVS will work from "master".
> If anyone would like to have a look (please
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Ben Collins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, in an immanent manifestation of deity, wrote:
>More specifically it is dpkg doing the breaking, but it's perl's fault on
>how it is setting everything up.
>
>You will note that these two binaries are in the perl package itself
>
>
Seth R Arnold wrote:
> How about add one question: "Automatically start all daemons: [Y/n]"
>
> If they answer yes, then no questions. If they answer no, ask as many
> questions as you want. :)
>
> Of course, the downside of this particular question is ... not *all* daemons
> should be automatica
Also most daemons should fail binding to a port if multiple ones are installed
and they automatically
start. So unless they have conflicting files they shouldn't conflict. Instead
of conflicting
each package that suplies foo-daemon should just spit out an warning message on
install saying that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Budde) writes:
> Am 24.09.99 schrieb joey # kitenet.net ...
>
> Moin Joey!
>
> JH> > dh_installdocs uses doc-base, which in turn registers documents for
> JH> > dwww and dhelp. Thous it is a superset and should be used, no?
>
> I would recommend using dwww and dhelp dir
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 01:02:44AM -0700, Joey Hess wrote:
> The Doctor What wrote:
> > Why shouldn't *all* daemon packages ask these questions, and whether to even
> > run *upon install*?
>
> Because we need to decrease the number of questions asked at install time,
> not increase it.
How about
The Doctor What wrote:
> Why shouldn't *all* daemon packages ask these questions, and whether to even
> run *upon install*?
Because we need to decrease the number of questions asked at install time,
not increase it.
--
see shy jo
Excerpts from debian: 25-Sep-99 Re: Useless packages (was R.. by David
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Is there any reason to think it's not correct? More importantly, even
> if it is somewhat wrong, is there any reason to think it's not better
> than what we have?
Well, accurate for the data it gets doesn'
Am 24.09.99 schrieb joey # kitenet.net ...
Moin Joey!
JH> > dh_installdocs uses doc-base, which in turn registers documents for
JH> > dwww and dhelp. Thous it is a superset and should be used, no?
I would recommend using dwww and dhelp directly. dhelp#s parser is written
in C and uses a databa
On Sat, Sep 25, 1999 at 07:28:57AM +, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
> David Starner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > Instead of each developer chose what packages are and aren't useful
> > to them, why don't we look at the popularity contest? A simple, bias-free
> > way of seperating programs on to the CD's,
* Ruud de Rooij ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990924 08:40]:
> Michael Neuffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > * Raul Miller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [990923 16:15]:
> > > On Thu, Sep 23, 1999 at 07:32:50AM -0500, Ashley Clark wrote:
> > > > Couldn't sash include a PAM module that would change the password to
About security on the BTS:
Don't introduce a system with `pre-security', let's use `post-security'...
what do I mean? The following: Make every action undoable and advertised,
e.g.: if someone manipulates a bug in any way the maintainer gets an email.
I think that that's how it's working now, so
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 04:26:27PM +0200, Sven LUTHER wrote:
> Also use of computer in planes is discouraged and prohibited during landfall
> and takeoff, as it interfer with the onboard radio equipement ...
This is a fiction perpetrated by flight attendants because many of them are
too dumb to te
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:34:28PM -0500, The Doctor What wrote:
> I do not like the idea of a daemon starting up with a default
> configuration that I have not double checked upon installation. I
> consider automatically starting with no choice a misfeature.
I think I agree.
I got a rude start
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 11:13:27AM -0400, Scott K. Ellis wrote:
> Okay, then solve the problem of which one should actually work on the
> standard port? You can't use update-alternatives if the software is
> launched in a different manner. If you have such an advanced setup, it
> isn't really tha
Here's what's been happening on debian-policy this week.
Please let me know if you think any proposals have a consensus.
Note: for details of the policy process, see
http://www.debian.org/~srivasta/policy/ch3.html. Also, this summary is
available on the web at http://kitenet.net/~joey/policy-week
> In my understanding the bible packages belong into contrib *at
> best*, since it's value to the public is at least questionable if not
> offensive to muslims, buddhists(no not to them), hindus ...
youre trying to be politically correct
yuck !
i hoped for higher level of discusion than in
equal-ri
According to Michael Alan Dorman:
> Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > [2] Debian doesn't create this specific hard link, but it should.
> > For example, my system has "/usr/bin/perl5.00503".
>
> Well, we do have perl-5.X, sans subversion.
That's good, but it breaks the upstream
Or crossover cable.
Dave Bristel
On 24 Sep 1999, Ruud de Rooij wrote:
> Date: 24 Sep 1999 17:16:06 +0200
> From: Ruud de Rooij <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Conference! - aro
On Fri, Sep 24, 1999 at 05:59:07PM -0400, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote:
> The criterion should be utility.
wrong. we've had this censorship discussion many times before. the only
criteria for inclusion in debian is:
- is it free?
- could someone be bothered doing the work of packaging it?
if the
From: "Martin Bialasinski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: strange behavior of dh_dhelp
Date: 24 Sep 1999 09:31:49 +0200
> * "Joey" == Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Joey> You are under the mistaken impression that dh_dhelp is a
> Joey> debhelper program. It's not. Don't use it.
I fo
Chip Salzenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> [2] Debian doesn't create this specific hard link, but it should.
> For example, my system has "/usr/bin/perl5.00503".
Well, we do have perl-5.X, sans subversion. Which is admittedly not
exactly what you refer to, but I thought that changes in man
Hello,
I intend to make a Debian GNU/Linux Package from "Fwctl". Therefore I will
have to make 2 Packages, one for fwctl and one for
"libnetwork-ipv4address-perl". ipchains-perl is already a debian package.
I have obtened both from http://indev.insu.com/Fwctl/ and will upload the
files soon to th
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