Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-09-01 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Aug 29, 2016 at 09:47:53PM +0200, Simon Richter wrote: > On 28.08.2016 22:11, Bart Schouten wrote: > > That "very serious race condition" is nothing more than one daemon > > having to wait for the other while starting up. THAT'S IT. Oh and > > knowing when something has died so you can rest

Re: Is missing SysV-init support a bug?

2016-09-01 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Aug 26, 2016 at 12:11:13AM +0200, Sven Hartge wrote: > I just saw the new conntrack-tools (1:1.4.4-2) package in Sid, which > has as a change > > * [917beed] conntrackd: get rid of the sysvinit support > > and I wondered, if this is a bug (and at what severity) or not. Hi, something si

Re: git repositories for packages and signed pushes

2015-07-15 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 06:23:59PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > The only significant problem is that the relevant versions of git are > currently only in experimental. Can we expect these (a) to be in sid > soon and (b) usefully stable backports to be available for (at least) > jessie ? (CCing git

Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2015-06-18 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Thu, Jun 18, 2015 at 03:09:26PM +0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote: > Hi Gerrit, > > On Thu, 18 Jun 2015 at 11:23:04 +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > Thanks for the help. I'd be happy to have the initramfs functionality > > split out and maintained separately. If

Re: RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2015-06-18 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 02:09:16AM +0200, Guilhem Moulin wrote: > On Fri, 01 Aug 2014 at 20:29:41 +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > Generally I'm with upstream who wrote in bug#692932: > >> As Dropbear upstream I'm keen to see this fixed. Given how > >> many Debi

Re: The inittab interface - Re: Bug#766187: runit: Fails to install runit after fresh install of jessie beta2

2014-12-09 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Nov 24, 2014 at 10:08:49PM +, Simon McVittie wrote: > On 24/11/14 21:41, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > Better than (2) would be to make the existence of /etc/inittab still > > essential for jessie, by moving the corresponding code from > > sysvinit-core into the essentia

Re: The inittab interface - Re: Bug#766187: runit: Fails to install runit after fresh install of jessie beta2

2014-11-24 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 09:34:50AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 09:20:46AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:29:54AM -0400, Nikolay Hristov wrote: > > > Setting up runit (2.1.2-1) ... > > > grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or

Re: New dash in experimental showing up a widespread bashism in configure scripts

2014-11-24 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sat, Nov 08, 2014 at 11:57:58AM +, Jonathan de Boyne Pollard wrote: > Gerrit Pape: > >Hi, I'd very appreciate help on tracking down the failures and do > > the appropriate analysis, reportbug, patch drafting, and the like, as > > my time for this is quite limited

Re: The inittab interface - Re: Bug#766187: runit: Fails to install runit after fresh install of jessie beta2

2014-10-25 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 09:20:46AM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:29:54AM -0400, Nikolay Hristov wrote: > > Setting up runit (2.1.2-1) ... > > grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory > > grep: /etc/inittab: No such file or directory > > cp

Re: ITP: runit-init -- a UNIX init scheme with service supervision

2014-10-22 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 12:21:04PM +0100, Neil McGovern wrote: > On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 07:56:25AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > This essentially is a reintroduction of the package "runit-run", which > > was added to Debian end of 2002, and removed on request of the rel

The inittab interface - Re: Bug#766187: runit: Fails to install runit after fresh install of jessie beta2

2014-10-22 Thread Gerrit Pape
severity 766187 grave quit On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 08:29:54AM -0400, Nikolay Hristov wrote: > Fresh minimal install of Jessie Beta2 with only SSH server selected in > tasksel. > Tried to install runit with 'apt-get install runit' and apt-get exits with > error > message of missing /etc/inittab

ITP: runit-init -- a UNIX init scheme with service supervision

2014-10-22 Thread Gerrit Pape
This essentially is a reintroduction of the package "runit-run", which was added to Debian end of 2002, and removed on request of the release team end of 2010, with the package name changed. Since then, a backward compatibility feature for running sysv rc scripts was added, ideally to be replaced

Re: New dash in experimental

2014-10-20 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 03:59:29PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2014-10-20 14:19 +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 07:07:45PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > >> Have you tried rebuilding the archive with the new version of dash? If > >> not, perh

Re: New dash in experimental

2014-10-20 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Oct 20, 2014 at 02:50:55PM +0200, Thorsten Glaser wrote: > On Mon, 20 Oct 2014, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > See #766048, I rate the results as ciritical issues ;), and so won't > > I’ve glanced at the list referenced. > > Some things that immediately come to mind

Re: Migration from cron to cron-daemon?

2014-10-20 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 12:08:20PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Stephan Seitz writes: > > Is this a release critical bug? As a testing user I now have problems > > using bcron. > > Given that this is a migration that's barely been started, I think it > would be best for bcron-run to continue to P

Re: New dash in experimental

2014-10-20 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, Oct 01, 2014 at 07:07:45PM +0200, Niels Thykier wrote: > On 2014-10-01 16:04, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > Hi, I uploaded a new version of dash (0.5.8-1) to experimental, please > > help testing it. If no critical issues arise, I plan to put this > > version into unstab

New dash in experimental

2014-10-01 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, I uploaded a new version of dash (0.5.8-1) to experimental, please help testing it. If no critical issues arise, I plan to put this version into unstable in about two weeks. Regards, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Raising priority of Debian packages

2014-08-31 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sat, Aug 30, 2014 at 09:30:17AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Gerrit Pape writes: > > [0] Actually policy 2.5 requires to additionally file a RC bug to the > > high priority package with the added dependency to prevent it from being > > migrated to testing until the overr

Raising priority of Debian packages

2014-08-30 Thread Gerrit Pape
rride decision has been made. Regards, Gerrit. On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 05:27:31PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 06:51:44PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > > Please do not report RC bug for this. Priorities are adjusted by the FTP > > master > > team by b

Re: Bug#758231: rsyslog: is priority important, depends on packages with priority extra

2014-08-15 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Aug 15, 2014 at 06:51:44PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Please do not report RC bug for this. Priorities are adjusted by the FTP > master > team by batch using the overrides file. There is no need to report bugs > against > the packages. Hi, I filed three bugs for the extreme, where pr

RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2014-08-01 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 01:24:04PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > Hi, in 2008 initramfs support was contributed to the dropbear package. > Unfortunately the contributor seems to be no longer active and quite > some bug reports concerning this feature have been collected in the BTS. > >

Re: Let's shrink Packages.xz

2014-07-25 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 10:07:25AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Ian Jackson writes: > > But the problem with lots of small packages is not that the Packages.xz > > has too many bytes. > > It's that the packaging tools, UIs (for users and developers), and > > humans, need to think about too many pa

Re: Bug#752075: daemontools-run: Add systemd support

2014-07-04 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 12:01:13PM +0200, Ansgar Burchardt wrote: > Could we please not have another systemd thread on -devel@? The last > one is not even cold yet... Thanks! On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 12:06:41PM +0200, Ond??ej Surᅵ wrote: > Please do not abuse debian-devel to questions that could

RFH: Re: Bug#752075: daemontools-run: Add systemd support

2014-07-04 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Jul 04, 2014 at 03:37:20AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Gerrit Pape writes: > > I looked into latest policy, but did not find anything about systemd > > support. I'm surprised that this is now a release critical bug, and the > > package marked for removal.

Re: Bug#752075: daemontools-run: Add systemd support

2014-07-04 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, I looked into latest policy, but did not find anything about systemd support. I'm surprised that this is now a release critical bug, and the package marked for removal. What's the justification? This package hooks into /etc/inittab, does systemd not automatically manage services from initta

RFH: dropbear initramfs support

2014-01-14 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, in 2008 initramfs support was contributed to the dropbear package. Unfortunately the contributor seems to be no longer active and quite some bug reports concerning this feature have been collected in the BTS. Since I don't use ssh support in initrams, I hereby look for helpers or even a co-mai

RFA: bglibs -- BG Libraries Collection

2011-02-15 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, I'm looking for a new maintainer for the bglibs package. Package: libbg1 Section: libs Architecture: any Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} Recommends: libbg1-doc Suggests: libbg1-dev Description: BG Libraries Collection This package contains a collection of libraries written by myself [Bru

RFA: dietlibc -- diet libc - a libc optimized for small size

2011-02-15 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, I'm looking for a new maintainer for the dietlibc package. Package: dietlibc-dev Section: libdevel Architecture: alpha amd64 arm hppa i386 ia64 mips mipsel powerpc ppc64 s390 sparc Recommends: dietlibc (= ${source:Version}) Suggests: dietlibc-doc Description: diet libc - a libc optimize

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-09-07 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 04:34:25PM +0100, Ian Jackson wrote: > Gerrit Pape writes ("Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs"): > > I can't help, I don't understand. I yesterday followed up to a mail > > that was additionally addressed to the > > mailing list a

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-08-31 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 08:28:57AM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: > [ It sucks to have to confirm mails for debian-package-d...@list.smarden.org ] I can't help, I don't understand. I yesterday followed up to a mail that was additionally addressed to the mailing list and got an automatic reply tel

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-28 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 03:20:12PM -0500, Raphael Geissert wrote: > On 15 April 2010 12:58, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > Raphael sent a mail rudimentarily stating how to proceed.  I must > > confess, I don't really understand the plan, or why it should be done > > t

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-19 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 11:41:03PM +0200, Michael Banck wrote: > Why are you not using alioth for this? It's less work for me, I haven't used alioth before. Regards, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-16 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Apr 16, 2010 at 01:59:45PM +0200, Vincent Danjean wrote: > On 15/04/2010 19:58, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > Hi, unfortunately my email didn't attract many contributors, i.e. no one > > but Raphael subscribed to the list. > > Is there a way to look at the archive

Re: dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-04-15 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 09:13:04PM +0100, Gerrit Pape wrote: > I'm looking for volunteers that are willing to help with maintaining > dash. Most of the work is relaying bug reports to upstream, judging and > including prospective fixes if upstream is unresponsive, preparing >

dash Debian package - RC bugs

2010-03-18 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, I find myself to have from time to time less spare time and/or motivation than some of the packages I maintain deserve. So the dash Debian package. I'm looking for volunteers that are willing to help with maintaining dash. Most of the work is relaying bug reports to upstream, judging and in

git-core Debian package

2010-03-15 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, kudos to Jonathan Nieder, who did and still does a great load of work on the Debian git-core package and its bug reports in the Debian BTS. I find myself to have from time to time less spare time and/or motivation than some of the packages I maintain deserve. With Jonathan co-working on Debi

Re: RFA's and RFH

2010-03-15 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, there're still packages up for adoption and a request for help. It would be nice if these packages, for some newer upstream versions are available, find a better home. On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 07:54:35AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote: > Hi, I'm looking for new maintainers for >

The 'git' Debian package in squeeze

2009-09-17 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, thanks to Ian Beckwith, the GNU Interactive Tools package 'git' has been renamed to 'gnuit' in lenny. In lenny 'git' is a transitional package that depends on gnuit, in squeeze and sid there's no 'git' package anymore. I'm about to provide a new git binary package from the git-core (the dist

RFA's and RFH

2009-09-01 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, I'm looking for new maintainers for bglibs -- BG Libraries Collection http://bugs.debian.org/544056 matrixssl -- small SSL library optimized for embedded systems http://bugs.debian.org/544057 libowfat -- A reimplementation of libdjb http://bugs.debian.org/544059 libdjbdns -- DNS clie

Bug#514323: RFA: ezmlm-browse -- Web browser for ezmlm-idx archives

2009-02-06 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, I'm looking for a new maintainer for the ezmlm-browse package. There's a new upstream version available. Description: Web browser for ezmlm-idx archives This is ezmlm-browse, a web interface for browsing ezmlm-idx (version 0.40 or later) archives. The default presentation is similar to that

Re: Bug#457318: qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-12-05 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Thu, Dec 04, 2008 at 11:44:41AM +0200, Kalle Kivimaa wrote: > Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I've yet to be pointed to a grave or serious bug in the packages pending > > in NEW, otherwise I see no reason why they shouldn't be processed and > > p

Re: Bug#457318: qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-12-04 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Tue, Dec 02, 2008 at 11:29:13AM +0100, Bjørn Mork wrote: > Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, I'm quite surprised how the inclusion of qmail and related packages > > into sid is handled, or rather not handled, by the ftpmasters. > > I download

Re: qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-12-01 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 08:51:01PM +0100, Neil Williams wrote: > On Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:12:42 + > Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Lacking any response, I can only guess what the reason for the delay > > is. > > IMHO, the response has been given and

Re: qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-12-01 Thread Gerrit Pape
n't aware of that. So the security discussion was kind of > a red herring, after all. Hi, how exactly is that a policy violation? Please see the answer to that paragraph in my reply (including full quote) to the rejection mail http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2008/09/msg00055.html On Mo

qmail and related packages in NEW

2008-11-28 Thread Gerrit Pape
eason is questionable, and I stated so in my response to the reject mail. Receiving no response within eight weeks tells me that discussing doesn't work. On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 10:36:07PM +, Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Sun, Jul 06, 2008 at 02:19:30PM +, Joerg Jaspert wrote: >

Re: Bug#500176: This bug is still around and release-critical

2008-10-09 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 09:07:00AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Pierre Habouzit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.10.08.1054 +0200]: > > FWIW I've upgraded a machine to replace pdnsd with unbound, it hit that > > bug of course. > [...] > > I don't think this is too hard to ask from someone t

Re: Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

2008-06-24 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, packages are available through http://smarden.org/pape/Debian/sid.html Regards, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Standardisation of the name of the patching targets included in debian/rules.

2008-02-06 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 08:14:35PM +0100, Stefano Zacchiroli wrote: > On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 11:10:41AM +0100, Martin Quinson wrote: > > I find personnaly patch/unpatch more easy to understand, but YMMV... > > I think (hope) that no one will be able to find a reason why the two > target should *n

Bug#459778: ITP: tinydyndns -- pop-before-dyndns service using djbdns

2008-01-08 Thread Gerrit Pape
tinydyndns is a simple but powerful dynamic DNS solution that uses djbdns. It cooperates with the djbdns package to publish dynamic IP addresses authenticated through POP connections. On successfully authenticated POP connections, the tinydyndns-update program manipulates tinydns' constant databa

Bug#458061: RFH: cfs -- Cryptographic Filesystem

2007-12-28 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, I'm seeking help with the cfs Debian package, if you're interested, please see http://bugs.debian.org/src:cfs cfs is a nice package, written in 1992, updated 1997, and since without upstream. Chris Leishman maintained the package until I took it over in 2002, it's worth reading through the s

Bug#457318: ITP: qmail -- a secure, reliable, efficient, simple message transfer agent

2007-12-21 Thread Gerrit Pape
qmail is meant as a replacement for the entire sendmail-binmail system on typical Internet-connected UNIX hosts. See BLURB, BLURB2, BLURB3, and BLURB4 in /usr/share/doc/qmail/ for more detailed advertisements. See /usr/share/doc/qmail/PIC.* for some ``end-to-end'' pictures of mail flowing through

Re: binNUMUs - all-depends-any

2007-06-23 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 11:31:49AM +0200, Marc 'HE' Brockschmidt wrote: > Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, I know that the git-core package doesn't support binNMUs, and AFAIK > > there's no convenient way to change that, as it builds arch: al

binNUMUs - all-depends-any

2007-06-23 Thread Gerrit Pape
Hi, I know that the git-core package doesn't support binNMUs, and AFAIK there's no convenient way to change that, as it builds arch: all package that depend on the specific arch: any package. http://bugs.debian.org/423041 Loosening the dependencies as suggested in http://wiki.debian.org/binNMU i

Re: start-stop-daemon for user processes

2007-06-04 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 10:56:37PM -0600, Warren Turkal wrote: > On Saturday 02 June 2007 21:45, Russ Allbery wrote: > > Take a look at runit. ?It's quite a bit like daemontools without the weird > > licensing. > > Runit doesn't appear to be useful for non-system tasks, like starting jackd > and

Re: 2 ftpds packages conflicts

2006-11-07 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Nov 06, 2006 at 11:34:14PM +0100, Sz?kelyi Szabolcs wrote: > can anyone tell why ftpds do conflict with each other and why httpds do > not? Actually the httpds should conflict too as they install listeners on 0.0.0.0:80. E.g.: With no httpd installed, install the apache package, apache w

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-11-04 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:41:47PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:29:20AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > files. I haven't heard any reason yet why splitting the packages would > > be a bad thing. > > > > And there's more advantages

Bug#330029: ITP: runit-services -- a UNIX init scheme with service supervision (services)

2005-09-25 Thread Gerrit Pape
runit is a replacement for SysV-init and other init schemes. It runs on Debian GNU/Linux, *BSD, MacOSX, and Solaris, and may be easily adapted to other Unix operating systems. runit implements a simple three-stage concept. Stage 1 performs the system's one-time initialization tasks. Stage 2

Re: Re: better init.d/* : who carres ?

2005-09-21 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 05:07:31AM -0400, Alfie Costa wrote: > Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I find constructs like ${string#*=} particularly difficult to read, > > since they require that I remember what all the different punctuation > > characters inside this sort of parameter expan

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-29 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 07:06:34PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 07:55:31AM +0000, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > > Is this really a good idea? > > > > Yes, why not? It solves the OP's problem; it lets you install packages > > that provide a s

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-29 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 01:04:28PM +1000, Brian May wrote: > >>>>> "Gerrit" == Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Gerrit> Gerrit> bincimap-run package provides the virtual package > Gerrit> ``imap-server'' and conflict

Re: Unnecessary "Conflicts" with imap-server packages

2005-08-23 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 12:32:15PM +0100, Edward wrote: > Is it necessary for the following packages to "Conflict" with the > virtual package "imap-server": > > bincimap-run > courier-imap > cyrus-imapd(*) > cyrus21-imapd (*) > dovecot-imapd > mailutils-imap4d (*) > uw

diverting conffiles

2005-06-24 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Tue, May 31, 2005 at 11:08:27PM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Be aware of the fact that diverting conffiles doesn't work. Hi, what exactly is the problem with diverting conffiles? Thanks, Gerrit. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: Bug#312660: ITP: shish -- the diet shell

2005-06-10 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:38:06PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote: > * Package name: shish > Version : 0.7-pre3 > Upstream Author : Roman Senn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > * URL : http://www.blah.ch/shish/ > * License : GPL > Description : the diet shell > > shish i

Re: Bug#302309: ITP: bcron -- Bruce's cron system

2005-04-21 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 11:45:24AM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Thursday 14 April 2005 20:05, Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > While I think that user specific services are useful, I don't think cron > > is the right place for that. The init system

Re: Bug#302309: ITP: bcron -- Bruce's cron system

2005-04-14 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Apr 11, 2005 at 01:50:16PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Sun, 10 Apr 2005, Steve Greenland wrote: > > On 10-Apr-05, 10:55 (CDT), Reinhard Tartler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > what about the "@reboot" extension? I think that's a really neat feature. > > > > /etc/rdS.d > > > > I know, tha

Re: Bug#302309: ITP: bcron -- Bruce's cron system

2005-04-08 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 04:27:27PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 06 Apr 2005, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > This is bcron, a new cron system designed with secure operations in mind. > > Neat! Any chance of adding fcron-like functionality? I got used to its

Re: Bug#302309: ITP: bcron -- Bruce's cron system

2005-04-07 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 07:35:25AM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 07-Apr-05, 06:40 (CDT), Marc Haber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Apr 2005 19:45:15 +0000, Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > >This is bcron, a new cron system des

Re: Bug#302309: ITP: bcron -- Bruce's cron system

2005-04-07 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, Apr 06, 2005 at 05:47:44PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > On 06-Apr-05, 14:45 (CDT), Gerrit Pape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There'll be two binary packages: bcron, containing the bcron programs > > and documentation, and bcron-run, setting up the bcron s

Bug#302309: ITP: bcron -- Bruce's cron system

2005-04-06 Thread Gerrit Pape
This is bcron, a new cron system designed with secure operations in mind. To do this, the system is divided into several separate programs, each responsible for a separate task, with strictly controlled communications between them. The user interface is a drop-in replacement for similar systems (s

Re: not starting packages at boot

2005-02-06 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 12:09:42PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Now that maintainers realized that one might like a package installed, > but perhaps only plans to use it unoften, it only makes sense for not > starting at boot to be offered as a friendly configuration option, > instead of needing so

Re: policy-rc.d confusion (was: not starting packages at boot)

2005-01-25 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 09:32:02AM +0100, Marc Haber wrote: > So policy-rc.d needs to be in /usr/local, or we have a FHS violation. > Additionally, the requirement of going through the alternatives system > for policy-rc.d selection is somewhat mis-placed, because it suggests > to me that policy-rc

Re: Re: faster boot

2003-10-19 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 11:53:18AM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > minit is already really small. All it does is running processes and > restarting them when they die. There seems to be little difference > between what i can do with minit and with multiple runsv. > And yes, i do know about shared me

Re: faster boot

2003-10-15 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 11:12:26AM +0200, Erich Schubert wrote: > runit is okay, and it has debian packages already. What i didn't like > about runit is the "forest" of processes it creates. The output of > pstree is really fancy. ;-) Minit seems to be able to do most of this > without using that m

Re: faster boot

2003-10-14 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 12:05:24PM +0200, Andrea Mennucc wrote: > there has been a lot of interest lately on tecniques to obtain a faster > boot; for example [...] > http://www.fefe.de/minit/ [...] > is anyone trying to implement the above in Debian? I've implemented the runit package, somewhat s

Bug#215353: ITP: bincimap-run -- IMAP server for Maildir depositories

2003-10-12 Thread Gerrit Pape
As an alternative to existing similar IMAP servers, Binc IMAP strives to be very easy to use, but robust, stable and secure. It aims at being absolutely compliant with the IMAP4rev1 protocol, and simple and modular in design, making it very easy for third parties to utilize the source code and

Re: non-root syslogd?

2003-07-09 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:59:35PM -0700, Mark Ferlatte wrote: > Has anyone investigated what would be necessary to get a non-root > syslogd working under Debian? It seems like this would be a good > thing, but obviously there have to be some tricky bits, else it would > have happened already. :)

Re: Time to package simpleinit?

2003-04-28 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Apr 28, 2003 at 03:43:25PM +0200, Joachim Breitner wrote: > I am really not trying to replace the sysvinit scheme as a default one, > and I don't think anybody else is. But having the option to use a > different one is a goal worth going for. You might be interested in the runit and runit-

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-03 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 11:01:15AM -0500, H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:39:30PM +0100, Jan Niehusmann wrote: > > Time will tell. I fear that some day, the only way to use email > > productively is to block all email with invalid sender adresses. And > > I don't know a way do valdia

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-03 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 06:50:14PM +, Matthew Garrett wrote: > In order to avoid this, spammers merely have to use a forged from > address that will generate an automatic response. There's no shortage of > those. [EMAIL PROTECTED] springs to mind, and I have no doubt that > there are many other

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-03 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:31:11PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:18, Stephen Zander wrote: > > The above is based on the false premise that those who send spam are > > incapable of sending it with (forged) real email addresses. They > > already have lots of them to choose fro

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-03 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 04:58:48PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > Also there's the issue of two people having such filters trying to > communicate with each other. This, of course, is taken care of, see the documentation if you are interested. > NB You can't just white-list an address when you se

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-01 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 02:35:28PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > The people who run such stupid filters misunderstand the way the > Internet works. Maybe you should do a short research on the user of this mail handling program before saying such. > If you have to send an extra confirmation messag

Bug#171253: ITP: libdjbdns -- DNS client library designed to replace the BIND res_*/dn_* library

2002-11-30 Thread Gerrit Pape
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist DNS client library designed to replace the old BIND res_*/dn_* library[0] High-level lookups: The dns library provides several easy-to-use DNS lookup routines: dns_ip4, dns_ip4_qualify, dns_name4, dns_mx, and dns_txt. dns_ip4_qualify supports the traditional con

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 04:02:33PM -0400, Jacob Kuntz wrote: > from the secret journal of Gerrit Pape ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > What makes you reacting so blind and childish? This is not the topic of this > > thread, just notice that there are debian people running djbdns - relaxed

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 02:30:21PM +, Alexander Koch wrote: > On Wed, 2 May 2001 13:39:17 +0200, Gerrit Pape wrote: > > See http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/faq/tinydns.html#nslookup f.e. > > djbdns? you really mean it? yes. > *brrzzzap* > [2] Mutt has scoring abilities, right?

Re: why dig ? I wanna use nslookup !

2001-05-02 Thread Gerrit Pape
On Wed, May 02, 2001 at 01:27:56PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 01 May 2001, Marco d'Itri wrote: > > > nslookup is broken, please let it die its long-deserved death. > > What's broken about it, apart from the brokenness that's in the current > version about the verbose warnings and missin