Re: /var/run and scripts

On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 05:45, Marco d'Itri wrote: > On Sep 03, Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Given that /var/tmp is bad for security, what would you suggest? > > It's bad only if your program is broken. And safe creation of temp files > is not hard... Given the history of people getting

Bug#208620: ITP: freeradius -- a high-performance and highly configurable RADIUS server

Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2003-09-04 Severity: wishlist * Package name: freeradius Version : 0.9.1 Upstream Author : The FreeRADIUS Server Project <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.freeradius.org/ * License : GPL2 with one library LGPL Descript

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Re: Bug in cron postinst

Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:40:51PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > > > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > there:[~] /bin/bash > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ foo="a b" > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for x in $foo; do echo "$x"; done > > > > > a > > > b > >

Re: /var/run and scripts

On Sep 03, Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Given that /var/tmp is bad for security, what would you suggest? It's bad only if your program is broken. And safe creation of temp files is not hard... So I think that the correct location is /tmp or /var/tmp if the script is temporary or /var

Re: Bug in cron postinst

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 01:40:51PM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > there:[~] /bin/bash > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ foo="a b" > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for x in $foo; do echo "$x"; done > > > a > > b > > $ foo="a b"; for x in "$foo"; do echo

Re: Bug in cron postinst

Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:20:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bar% bash > > > bash-2.05b$ L=`find` > > > bash-2.05b$ for i in $L; do echo $i; done > > > . > > > ./a > > > b > > > > No wonder. You aren't quoting correctly! Use 'e

Re: Bug in cron postinst

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 05:20:54PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bar% bash > > bash-2.05b$ L=`find` > > bash-2.05b$ for i in $L; do echo $i; done > > . > > ./a > > b > > No wonder. You aren't quoting correctly! Use 'echo "$i"'. there:[~] /bin/bash [EMAIL PRO

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New ICU Debian maintainers

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, This is to announce that Ivo Timmermans and I are taking over as maintainers of the Debian ICU package since we haven't been able to contact Yves Arrouye. We are maintaining the debian directory in CVS on http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-ic

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Re: Bug in cron postinst

Jan Schulz wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmp$ IFS=" > " > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/tmp$ for i in $L; do echo $i; done > . > ./a b > > Jan, learned the hard way... except for filenames with embedded newlines. use "$i", and worry no more. -john

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I have made Debian packages of PostgreSQL 7.4beta2 and uploaded them to Debian's experimental archive. The package version is 7.3.99.7.4beta2-1 (so that when 7.4's final version comes out, it will be perceived as a later package). They are built on a machine running current unstable, so they cann

Re: Bug in cron postinst

Hallo Goswin, * Goswin von Brederlow wrote: >(my normal shell is zsh) >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bar% touch "a b" >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bar% L=`find` >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bar% for i in $L; do echo $i; done >. >./a b >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp/bar% bash >bash-2.05b$ L=`find`

Bug#208566: ITP: x25-utils -- utilities to configure X.25 networks

Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-03 Severity: wishlist * Package name: x25-utils Version : 2.3.93 Upstream Author : Jonathan Simon Naylor * URL : http://www.baty.hanse.de/linux-x25/utils/ * License : unknown (have to clear that up, probably B

Re: /var/run and scripts

Russell Coker wrote: > The FHS is not clear on whether it is OK to put a script in /var/run. > > If a program wants to create a script and then run it, where should it be > placed? Red Hat has apmd creating such scripts under /var/run. Is this > correct? If not where should it be? One exampl

Bug#208560: ITP: pc300 -- utilities for configuring the Cyclades PC300 synchronous PCI adapters

Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-03 Severity: wishlist * Package name: pc300 Version : 4.0.0 Upstream Author : Cyclades Coperation * URL : ftp://ftp.cyclades.com/pub/cyclades/pc300/linux/ * License : GPL Description : utilities for conf

Re: Bug in cron postinst

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:12:36AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > And lets add a user with homedir "`rm -rf ..`" just for fun. Variable expansion happens at the same time as command substitu

Re: Bug in cron postinst

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 10:48:36AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 03-Sep-03, 01:33 (CDT), Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And lets add a user with homedir "`rm -rf ..`" just for fun. > > I'm missing something here. What does the user's homedir have to do with > anything?

Re: Bug in cron postinst

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 08:33:26AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > for ct in * ; do > > chown $ct:crontab $ct > > done > [...] > And lets add a user with homedir "`rm -rf ..`" just for fun. That command line has nothing to do

Re: Bug in cron postinst

On 02-Sep-03, 23:50 (CDT), Christian Perrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Steve Greenland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Yes, obvious in retrospect, and I'll put the brown paper bag on my head > > after I upload the fix. > > Will the fix include the switch to po-debconf proposed in #195887??

Re: Bug in cron postinst

On 03-Sep-03, 01:33 (CDT), Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And lets add a user with homedir "`rm -rf ..`" just for fun. I'm missing something here. What does the user's homedir have to do with anything? The entry in the spool dir is the username. Someone else mentioned username

Re: /var/run and scripts

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 07:34:07AM +0200, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > I would like to preserve that, especially /tmp and /var/tmp i would not > like to see executable. noexec /tmp and /var/tmp seem to create far more problems than they solve. -- - mdz

Re: /var/run and scripts

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:34:02PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > The FHS is not clear on whether it is OK to put a script in /var/run. > > If a program wants to create a script and then run it, where should it be > placed? Red Hat has apmd creating such scripts under /var/run. Is this > corre

Re: /var/run and scripts

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 03:20:49PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:00, Steve Langasek wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:31:28AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:25, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > > > > > If not where should it be? > > > > > > > > What about /

Re: Bug in cron postinst

Quoting Steve Greenland ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Yes, obvious in retrospect, and I'll put the brown paper bag on my head > after I upload the fix. Will the fix include the switch to po-debconf proposed in #195887 ? That one is among the oldests "please switch to po-debconf" bugs filed by the frenc

Bug#208544: new upstream version

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Package: hasciicam Version: 0.9.1 Severity: wishlist new upstream version, major bugfixes included to support more devices, ftp fixes and better grabbing code. SGI crossplatform support has been dropped, also fixes to autoconf/automake files. thanks t

Re: /var/run and scripts

Anthony Towns, on 2003-09-03, 14:26, you wrote: > What Steve said. Also, /var/lib is the default place for dynamically > created stuff that doesn't have somewhere else to go. If the script needs to be preserved across reboot then put it in /var/lib/pckg/ ; otherwise put it in /var/run/pckg/ . --

Re: /var/run and scripts

Anthony Towns, on 2003-09-03, 14:26, you wrote: > What Steve said. Also, /var/lib is the default place for dynamically > created stuff that doesn't have somewhere else to go. What about /var/lib/package/bin (kind of qmail-style)? Joerg -- Joerg "joergland" Wendland GPG: 51CF8417 FP: 79C0 7671 A

Re: Bug in cron postinst

Steve Greenland wrote: > for ct in * ; do > chown $ct:crontab $ct > done This will also fail with usernames that include spaces. I'm sure you already have a solution, but I'd go with something like this: find /var/spool/crontab -maxdepth 1 -type f -print | while read ct; do

Bug#208522: ITP: sneps -- Semantic Network Processsing System

Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist * Package name: sneps Version : 2.6.0 Upstream Author : Stuart C. Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL or Web page : http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/sneps/ * License : GPL Description : Semantic Network Processsing System

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Re: authen sasl

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Bug#208508: ITP: potrace -- utility to transform bitmaps into vector graphics

Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-03 Severity: wishlist * Package name: potrace Version : 1.1 Upstream Author : Peter Selinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://potrace.sourceforge.net/ * License : GPL Description : utility to transform

Bug#208502: ITP: sgml-spell-checker -- spell checker for SGML documents

Package: wnpp Version: unavailable; reported 2003-09-03 Severity: wishlist * Package name: sgml-spell-checker Version : 20030828 Upstream Author : Peter Eisentraut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/spellcheck.html * License : B

Re: Bug in cron postinst

Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] for ct in * ; do chown $ct:crontab $ct done >>> This also won't w

Re: Bug in cron postinst

Andreas Metzler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> YES, I know that the postinst doesn't work if you don't have any user > >> crontabs, feel free to stop reporting the bug -- I have enough. > > >> You

Re: Bug in cron postinst

Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> YES, I know that the postinst doesn't work if you don't have any user >> crontabs, feel free to stop reporting the bug -- I have enough. >> You can get the installation to complete by editing >> /var

Re: Bug in cron postinst

Steve Greenland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > YES, I know that the postinst doesn't work if you don't have any user > crontabs, feel free to stop reporting the bug -- I have enough. > > You can get the installation to complete by editing > /var/lib/dpkg/info/cron.postinst and removing these thre

Re: vrms and contrib installers

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian T. Sniffen) a tapoté : > > > I'm puzzled. At first, I was thinking it was some kind of workaround > > to avoid entering non-free but, in fact, it would be a workaround for > > to enter debian for packages that would not be allowed at all in any > > other case -- which is i

Re: /var/run and scripts

On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 12:00, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:31:28AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > On Wed, 3 Sep 2003 11:25, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > > > > If not where should it be? > > > > > > What about /usr/local/ or /var/opt/? The former seems > > > to be the best one, to me..

Re: /var/run and scripts

On Wed, Sep 03, 2003 at 11:31:28AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > /var/opt sounds reasonable. What Steve said. Also, /var/lib is the default place for dynamically created stuff that doesn't have somewhere else to go. Cheers, aj -- Anthony Towns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: /var/run and scripts

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:49:43PM -0500, Gunnar Wolf wrote: > /usr should be mountable read-only... I would go for /var/opt or -if it > is a disposable script- /tmp or /var/tmp (of course, excercising enough > care) On my system I try to have /var mounted noexec, and /usr readonly. Both breaks o

Re: /var/run and scripts

On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 15:34, Russell Coker wrote: > The FHS is not clear on whether it is OK to put a script in /var/run. > If a program wants to create a script and then run it, where should it be > placed? Red Hat has apmd creating such scripts under /var/run. Is this > correct? I know of no