Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-27 Thread Martin Pool
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:52:43 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote: >> - in the meantime, tmpreaper cleans up /tmp/bob > > Just FWIW, but a multiuser system that is running tmpreaper is insecure. > The bugs apparantly cannot be fixed, but I can write up an exploit if you > pay me

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-27 Thread Martin Pool
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 13:27:04 -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote: > I'm not trying to start a flamewar. You asked "Is there *any* reason why > defaulting TMPDIR=/tmp/ is inferior to TMPDIR=/tmp?", I > answered, and now you're being hostile and dismissive. That is a reasonable question to ask. I

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-27 Thread Martin Pool
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 19:33:25 -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote: > On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 09:16:44AM +1000, Matthew Palmer wrote: >> > Not necessarily. With the current /tmp system, the only directory >> > entries that are created are the ones that are actually needed at any >> > given time. If

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-27 Thread Martin Pool
On Fri, 25 Jul 2003 23:11:04 -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 07:33:25PM -0600, Dwayne C. Litzenberger wrote: > >> >> Personally, I'd rather see a better set of tools for programmers to use >> to create temporary files. tmpfile(3) is horribly inadequade for a lot >> of thi

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-27 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Nick Bannon | On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 02:52:48PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: | > Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > > If you default to ~/tmp/ or ~/.temp/ or something like this, you get the | > > hashing for free, and you only need quota on the home partition. | > | > It wa

Re: logcheck problem

2003-07-27 Thread Eirik Schwenke
On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 17:19:49 +0100 (CET) "Tille, Andreas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > I suspect something is brocken with the latest logcheck. I continuousely > get the appended message. I do not think that it is caused by my exclude > rules > because I did not change anything importa

Bug#203148: ITP: libi18n-java -- internationalization library for java

2003-07-27 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libi18n-java Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Jean-Hugues de Raigniac <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://jhraigniac.freesurf.fr/i18n-lib/ * License : ACME Labs Freeware License Description : internationalizat

Bug#203131: ITP: resolvconf -- Nameserver information manager

2003-07-27 Thread Thomas Hood
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-27 Severity: wishlist * Package name: resolvconf Version : 0.31 Upstream Author : Thomas Hood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://alioth.debian.org/projects/update-resolv * License : GPL Description : Nam

Re: packages removed by Release Manager just reveal older versions

2003-07-27 Thread Joey Hess
(This question is appropriate for the debian-user mailing list, redirecting.) Dan Jacobson wrote: > there seems no mechanism at present to warn the user that he shouldn't > install it, even if he has done apt-get update from the mirrors. In > bug 202919 you will see I was just lucky something sto

Bug#203114: ITP: libjdepend-java -- description courte

2003-07-27 Thread Arnaud Vandyck
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: libjdepend-java Version : 2.6 Upstream Author : [EMAIL PROTECTED] * URL or Web page : http://www.clarkware.com/software/JDepend.html * License : GPL Description : tool to measure design quality of java class and source

Re: [custom] Some issues for custom debian distributions

2003-07-27 Thread Ola Lundqvist
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 05:58:31PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > - Preconfigure the packages we install > > Using two different approaches: (1) Load answers into the debconf > database before the packages are installed using some home-make > scripts, and (2) rewrite/replace c

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-27 Thread Michael Banck
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 07:45:47PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > I admit I wasn't very clear about why I tagged it pending. I think we > probably need a 'fixed-upstream' tag or similar now that pending is more > explicitly reserved for "upload will happen soon". I second that. Michael -- "The d

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 08:00:05PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Colin Watson wrote: > > Matthew's *got* a co-maintainer for ssh, as a cursory check of the > > changelog would have revealed. Hello. > > I checked the bug page, which says the maintainer is Matthew. Unfortunately the BTS isn'

Bug#202907: language tasks pull in reams of huge packages

2003-07-27 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:11:22PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > > The task information comes from Task: lines in the Packages file. To > whit: You are right, I forgot about that. > Package: foo-locale-es > Task: desktop & spanish, office & spanish > > And then tasksel and aptitude and anything els

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-27 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Colin Watson wrote: > Matthew's *got* a co-maintainer for ssh, as a cursory check of the > changelog would have revealed. Hello. I checked the bug page, which says the maintainer is Matthew. I'll remember to also check the changelog next time, thanks. (Seriously.) Anyway, if you think it's O

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 04:45:33PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Hi, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 10:30:07AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > >> Wrong, actually. ssh forks twice before spawning a shell (I don't know > >> why); > > > > I think it is related to the priveledg

Re: Bug#203048: ITP: libapache-mod-dynvhost -- Virtual Servers in Apache based on directories. Supports cgi-bin directories and individual user homes.

2003-07-27 Thread Martin List-Petersen
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 14:22, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Sunday 27 July 2003 13:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > This Apache module does Dynamic Virtual Servers based on directory names. > > It supports user home directories and individual cgi-bin directories. When > > creating a directory (and thereby

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 04:45:33PM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > It's also tagged "pending" since May... Matthew, do you need a > co-maintainer for ssh? Matthew's *got* a co-maintainer for ssh, as a cursory check of the changelog would have revealed. Hello. ISTR that I tagged that bug pending

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-27 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 10:30:07AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: >> Wrong, actually. ssh forks twice before spawning a shell (I don't know >> why); > > I think it is related to the priveledge separation code. > Probably. It's still a bug. #164797, actually, which is

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 10:30:07AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Wrong, actually. ssh forks twice before spawning a shell (I don't know > why); I think it is related to the priveledge separation code. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,d

Bug#202907: language tasks pull in reams of huge packages

2003-07-27 Thread Joey Hess
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña wrote: > > Doing this would probably involve multiplying the number of language > > tasks by the number of other tasks. Yeilding tasks like desktop-spanish, > > etc. This would quickly become hard to maintain, I'd think. > > No, I meant that the tasksel definition co

Re: Bug#203048: ITP: libapache-mod-dynvhost -- Virtual Servers in Apache based on directories. Supports cgi-bin directories and individual user homes.

2003-07-27 Thread Mike Hommey
On Sunday 27 July 2003 13:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > This Apache module does Dynamic Virtual Servers based on directory names. > It supports user home directories and individual cgi-bin directories. When > creating a directory (and thereby a virtual server) there is no need for > restarting apa

Re: Interesting problem in timezoneconf package

2003-07-27 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 2003-07-27 at 12:44, Colin Watson wrote: > I tested this before posting. No, -e is a little more forgiving than > that, as stated in bash(1): > > -e Exit immediately if a simple command (see SHELL > GRAMMAR above) exits with a non-zero status.

Bug#203046: Info received (was Bug#203046: RFA: doc-linux -- Linux HOWTOs and FAQs)

2003-07-27 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Thank you for the additional information you have supplied regarding this problem report. It has been forwarded to the package maintainer(s) and to other interested parties to accompany the original report. Your message has been sent to the package maintainer(s): [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you wish t

Bug#203048: ITP: libapache-mod-dynvhost -- Virtual Servers in Apache based on directories. Supports cgi-bin directories and individual user homes.

2003-07-27 Thread martin
Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-07-27 Severity: wishlist * Package name: libapache-mod-dynvhost Version : 0.9.6 Upstream Author : Naoki Watanabe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://funkcity.com/0101/ * License : GPL Description : Virtual

Bug#202907: language tasks pull in reams of huge packages

2003-07-27 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Joey Hess [Fri, Jul 25 2003, 02:50:52PM]: > because the spanish task, like many tasks, pulls in -ll packages like > openoffice.org-l10n-es and mozilla-locale-es-es. These tend to be split ... > - Make the -ll packages only recommend the main packages, as the kde > ones do. > - Put th

Re: Bug#203046: RFA: doc-linux -- Linux HOWTOs and FAQs

2003-07-27 Thread David B Harris
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 11:47:06 +0100 Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > David Harris has expressed an interest in this job, and I've talked to > him about it on IRC, so if he still wants it he's welcome. If anyone > else is interested, then contact me: a small team would be a good idea > anywa

Re: [custom] Some issues for custom debian distributions

2003-07-27 Thread Christoph Berg
Re: Re: [custom] Some issues for custom debian distributions ["Nikita V. Youshchenko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 08:30:33AM +0400, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>] > > if [ -r $HOME/.profile ] ; then > > . $HOME/.profile > > fi > > Sterictly saying, this is broken. > /etc/profile, ~/.

Re: Interesting problem in timezoneconf package

2003-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 07:19:44PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: [somebody broke attributions here] > > > > > > my $temp="set -e\nset -- @ARGV\n" . << 'EOF'; > > > if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then > > > [ -x /usr/sbin/update-configlets

Bug#203046: RFA: doc-linux -- Linux HOWTOs and FAQs

2003-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
Package: wnpp Severity: normal Hi folks, I've been maintaining doc-linux for nearly two years now. While I'm satisfied that it's in a much better state than when I took it on, during that time it's consumed pretty much a solid day or two of effort every month, and I'm now getting busy enough that

Re: Interesting problem in timezoneconf package

2003-07-27 Thread Junichi Uekawa
> > > > my $temp="set -e\nset -- @ARGV\n" . << 'EOF'; > > if [ "$1" = "configure" ]; then > > [ -x /usr/sbin/update-configlets ] && /usr/sbin/update-configlets > > fi > > > > EOF > > >>

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-27 Thread Dennis Stampfer
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 09:47:29AM +0200, Norbert Tretkowski wrote: > * Dennis Stampfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have to log out a user who is logged in via ssh. > > , > | % apt-cache show slay Sure, but I can't fix a bug by saying "use slay instead of this package"... ;) Dennis

Re: Interesting problem in timezoneconf package

2003-07-27 Thread Colin Watson
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 09:24:55AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > The dh_installdocs part comes from a #DEBHELPER# in > debian/postinst. > > When recompiling now, this doesnt exist anymore and thus we end up > with?: > > > my $temp=

Re: NMU version number and native packages

2003-07-27 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 10:13:09PM +0900, Junichi Uekawa wrote: > > The 'standard process' that I know of is this: > > > * On other side some people on #d-d says that the standard way is to add > > .1 to the number. > > > > Thus, a package with a version number '1.5' will be versioned > '1.5.

db.debian.org, changing mail forwarding without it

2003-07-27 Thread Hugo van der Merwe
Hello, Seems db.debian.org is still offline. Is there any way I can change my mail forwarding without it? It forwards to [EMAIL PROTECTED], currently bach is broken, so bounces are going all over the place (mailing list subscriptions). I need to change it to... maybe [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cannot conta

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-27 Thread Matthias Urlichs
Hi, Dennis Stampfer wrote: > If he's logged in via telnet, I can do the job by killing that pid. That > does not work with ssh: For some reason, all what I get out of utmp is > the pid of the listening sshd which I can't kill if I don't want to > disable ssh-logins. Wrong, actually. ssh forks

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-27 Thread Nick Bannon
On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 02:52:48PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote: > Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you default to ~/tmp/ or ~/.temp/ or something like this, you get the > > hashing for free, and you only need quota on the home partition. > > It was pointed out already that th

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-27 Thread Norbert Tretkowski
* Dennis Stampfer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have to log out a user who is logged in via ssh. , | % apt-cache show slay | [...] | Description: kills all of the user's processes | Slay provides you with a way to quickly get rid of all | processes selected user owns. Very useful if you wan

Re: packages removed by Release Manager just reveal older versions

2003-07-27 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 12:42:58AM -0700, Joshua Kwan wrote: > On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 10:08:36AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > Version Table: > > 0.8.0.6 0 > > 500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux SID _Sid_... > [snip] > > I guess I'm hoping for a warning that a package is 'out of fashion

Re: packages removed by Release Manager just reveal older versions

2003-07-27 Thread Joshua Kwan
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 10:08:36AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Version Table: > 0.8.0.6 0 > 500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux SID _Sid_... [snip] > I guess I'm hoping for a warning that a package is 'out of fashion' > when I try to apt-get install it. We're not responsible for your unr

Interesting problem in timezoneconf package

2003-07-27 Thread Christian Perrier
I found the following while trying to rebuild this package after Branden agreed for a NMU implementing a switch to po-debconf for the templates. If one tries to rebuild timezoneconf on a *current* sarge machine, the build is OK, but the postinst dies with : bash-2.05b# dpkg -i timezoneconf_0.7_

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-27 Thread Craig Sanders
this question really belongs on debian-user, not on debian-devel. On Sat, Jul 26, 2003 at 07:55:28PM +0200, Dennis Stampfer wrote: > I have to log out a user who is logged in via ssh. The information that he > is not allowed to login comes from the utmp-file like the pid to kill. if he's not

packages removed by Release Manager just reveal older versions

2003-07-27 Thread Dan Jacobson
Regarding packages removed by Debian's Release Manager, due to Release Criticial bugs, but say, still looking great here: $ apt-cache policy deity deity: Installed: (none) Candidate: 0.8.0.6 Version Table: 0.8.0.6 0 500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux SID _Sid_... there seems no mecha