Re: Mass "do not use bash" bug filing

2014-09-26 Thread Klaus Ethgen
s or so; I assumed that more were > coming. If that's not the case, then great. :-) You are welcome. :-) Thanks for watching. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: 85D4 CA42 952C 949B

Re: Mass "do not use bash" bug filing

2014-09-26 Thread Klaus Ethgen
ells may not be used if appropriate shebangs and dependencies are in > place. Exactly that I wanted to say, that it is a recommendation to use /bin/sh. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16 Klaus Ethgen

Re: Mail breaks spamassassin

2013-06-18 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hello, Am Di den 18. Jun 2013 um 12:45 schrieb Paul Wise: > On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 6:25 PM, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > > Currently I encountered the mail <20130617170434.ga10...@scru.org> > > breaking spamassassin ve

Mail breaks spamassassin

2013-06-18 Thread Klaus Ethgen
nybody similar experiences? Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: 85D4 CA42 952C 949B 1753 62B3 79D0 B06F 4E20 AF1C -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU

Re: install-info breaks dpkg

2011-05-25 Thread Klaus Ethgen
a long history with install-info. Many thanks for the constructive help and your mediative answer. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: 85D4 CA42 952C 949B 1753 62B3 79D0 B06F 4E20 AF1C --

Re: Bug#593706: [kl...@ethgen.de: Re: Bug#593706: install-info breaks dpkg]

2011-05-25 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi Bernd, Am Mi den 25. Mai 2011 um 15:59 schrieb Bernd Zeimetz: > On 05/25/2011 04:47 PM, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > What are you for a kind of troll!? Sorry about to be such direct. But I > > never ever have seen any kind of help

Re: Bug#593706: [kl...@ethgen.de: Re: Bug#593706: install-info breaks dpkg]

2011-05-25 Thread Klaus Ethgen
bian-devel too as you was trolling around over there too. (Not as answer to me but very offensive.) Regards Klaus Ps. Don't bother to go on with this offensive. I will put you to my kill file. - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 4096R/4E20AF1C

Re: Changed ssh key on git.debian.org

2011-05-22 Thread Klaus Ethgen
I get a warning that was not there with alioth: "bash: warning: setlocale: LC_ALL: cannot change locale (de_DE)". It seems that not all locales are build on the system. > Probably you should be subscribed to d-d-a and reading the list. Probably. I thought I am but could miss t

Changed ssh key on git.debian.org

2011-05-22 Thread Klaus Ethgen
anywhere or is there someone spying around? The new fingerprint I get is 8c:c0:b8:9f:0a:79:ee:1c:77:c4:b8:a1:70:55:b7:31. Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 4096R/4E20AF1C 2011-05-16 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: 85D4 CA42 952C 949B 1753

Re: Bug#619486: RFH: geeqie -- image viewer using GTK+

2011-03-24 Thread Klaus Ethgen
n maintainer at all. > The packaging itself is pretty easy. Sure. I did the upstream debian dir. ;-) Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-04 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Fr den 4. Mär 2011 um 12:24 schrieb Wouter Verhelst: > On Fri, Mar 04, 2011 at 11:32:01AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > A user that installs Debian on his system will do that due to the > > reputation in security. If he want to

OT: Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-04 Thread Klaus Ethgen
XFCE/LXDE system: decent functionality, usable also on older machines > WM/console system: packages only installed as needed Hey, I feel discriminated! I use fvwm. ;-) Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-04 Thread Klaus Ethgen
sometimes you need a software component on the server that you usually only use on laptops or desktops. One example is the wpa-supplicant, that is common to test radius servers. It should not be that this accidentally leads to zeroconf components with the dependencies. (I did not check if that is t

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Klaus Ethgen
es. But in the security part I do not see an alternative to be a bit to paranoid. And if I am not the only one, that shows me that I am not completely wrong. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerpr

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Klaus Ethgen
nd share the hardened packages to others on a private repository. That is not great but sometimes it is the only workable way. And it is no easy way. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-03 Thread Klaus Ethgen
s is pretty much as secure > as > the avahi-disabled system. That is not true. For two reasons: 1. It is one more daemon that is not needed and can have bugs. (And even more it lowers the sensibility about unusual processes on your system) 2. It even configure parts of yo

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-02 Thread Klaus Ethgen
oconf is not that insecure. But in all other environments you do not want to have it. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: Disable ZeroConf: how to ?

2011-03-02 Thread Klaus Ethgen
sayin'. Ehem, no. A system has not to listen for any unused and unneeded services ever. A firewall is to control services you _need_. All that zeroconf stuff is absolutely not needed and wanted. (By the most users, I suppose.) Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen

Re: OT: Python (was: Make Unicode bugs release critical?)

2011-02-14 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Mo den 14. Feb 2011 um 16:24 schrieb Ian Jackson: > Jakub Wilk writes ("Re: OT: Python (was: Make Unicode bugs release > critical?)"): > > * Klaus Ethgen , 2011-02-14, 14:37: > > >~> LC_CTYPE=en_G

Re: OT: Python (was: Make Unicode bugs release critical?)

2011-02-14 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Mo den 14. Feb 2011 um 15:15 schrieb Lars Wirzenius: > On ma, 2011-02-14 at 14:37 +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > lets start a python rant. I love to hate this language. :-) > > Let's not. 'Till here it is personal

OT: Python (was: Make Unicode bugs release critical?)

2011-02-14 Thread Klaus Ethgen
uot;\x{00a3}\n";' ~> LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf-8 perl -e 'print "\x{00a3}\n";' | cat Both gives the same result, a '£' sign as expected. > * Ian Jackson , 2011-02-14, 12:42: > >Excellent, I look forward to the removal of python. I always > >hated t

Re: The future of m-a and dkms

2011-02-14 Thread Klaus Ethgen
iability. Regards Klaus Ps. On all systems of mine I was forced to blacklist dkms via preferences to not break my systems with custom kernel. - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40

Re: Make Unicode bugs release critical?

2011-02-11 Thread Klaus Ethgen
hat encodings. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.ch/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBTVUksZ+OKpjR

xsnow

2010-12-02 Thread Klaus Ethgen
. Well, it is not that important but xsnow is at least a nice program and I do not want to miss it that times. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B

Valid-Until and snapshot or archives

2010-09-03 Thread Klaus Ethgen
Valid-Until header in archive release files? Should Archives remove them (then that is a bug of snapshot.debian.org) or should there be a switch in apt config to disable it for one particular source URL? Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub

Re: Anounce of a secure repo for debian

2010-05-31 Thread Klaus Ethgen
t for the moment there is just that packages I told about. > gpgv: Signature made Sun 30 May 2010 19:01:45 BST using RSA key ID > D1A4EDE5 Correct. > > Where is that key available? > > I assume it's this one: > pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <(E-Mail Remo

Re: Anounce of a secure repo for debian

2010-05-31 Thread Klaus Ethgen
s should definitely be warned that they're > using it at their own risk (the same stands for any private > repository, of course, including those I manage myself...:-)). Yes, its a good idea. At the moment the repository is just as it is and it holds the secured packages

Anounce of a secure repo for debian

2010-05-30 Thread Klaus Ethgen
unofficial-secured). This repository holds secured packages of the insecure debian packages just without the insecure patch (or the insecurity patched). The full sources are available to build. At the moment the repository holds base-files, openssh and procmail. Regards Klaus Ethgen

Re: Open then gates (was: UPG and the default umask)

2010-05-14 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Am Sa den 15. Mai 2010 um 1:18 schrieb Stefano Zacchiroli: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 01:57:05AM +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: > > Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > > A black day in the security of Debian. Well.. One more. &

Re: Bug#581434: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-14 Thread Klaus Ethgen
t intentional. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBS+3kap+OKpjR

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-13 Thread Klaus Ethgen
gs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=581434#25 A black day in the security of Debian. Well.. One more. - -- Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B ---

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-11 Thread Klaus Ethgen
umask value to allow the write bit on groups when UPG is > setup (as it is by default) just makes sense. In the most cases, no, no, no! Only in a very few use cases that might make sense. > Keeping the write bit off the group, means we're too lazy to change > old historical baggage. Ah

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-10 Thread Klaus Ethgen
ant files only to serve some few use cases where the persons normally know how to get rid of anyway. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2

Re: UPG and the default umask

2010-05-10 Thread Klaus Ethgen
match the UPG scheme? Is this doable for Sqeeze? Are > there reasons for not making the switch? Hopefully not! Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C

Re: Bug#571754: strftime("%c") crashes in (some) locations

2010-02-28 Thread Klaus Ethgen
se don't be stupid. Sorry, but I have to return the compliment. But lets stop going to the personal level and stay on the objective level. Now you seems to have a code snipplet to reproduce the bug. So looking forward to get this solved. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen

Re: Bug#571754: strftime("%c") crashes in (some) locations

2010-02-28 Thread Klaus Ethgen
, which was added by me only for having a tm struct to test with). So please be not that ignorant. I have a pretty high opinion of debian. Please don't destroy that! Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus E

Re: Allow package bug scripts to unconditionally stop reportbug

2010-01-08 Thread Klaus Ethgen
and don't wanted to be disturbed by a bug report. I don't want to tell a concrete package name to not start a flame. Ask by PM if you interested in. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerp

Re: "upgrading" my gpg key

2010-01-05 Thread Klaus Ethgen
an DSA so the length of the DSA key has to be a bit longer than the length of the RSA key to have the same strength. Though the difference are only little so in practice it makes no real difference. Regard Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub

Re: GDM, getty and VTs

2009-11-16 Thread Klaus Ethgen
ated to the problem but made many problems. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU

Re: New upstream version

2009-10-25 Thread Klaus Ethgen
ained rather than updated once a year. Steve, what do you think > about > this? You can count for me. > PS: and of course, this discussion has to move to another list as soon as it > enters into technical details about packaging issues. Sure. As I mention I did th

New upstream version

2009-10-24 Thread Klaus Ethgen
er to have a up-to-date package in debian. - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUBS

Re: apt-get not working anymore

2009-09-05 Thread Klaus Ethgen
apt-pkg-perl which makes several packages to get purged when installing the unstable version.) Am Sa den 5. Sep 2009 um 20:18 schrieb Hans-J. Ullrich: > APT::Cache-Limit "1"; Doesn't help as the limit is hard coded in apt. Just look at the source. The pr

apt-get not working anymore

2009-09-01 Thread Klaus Ethgen
until this bug is fixed? It is known long enough for now. I have the version 0.7.20.2+lenny1 installed, so it seems to be the most recent version. (apt-cache doesn't work too so I can only view the web site) Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen

Re: new package format

2009-07-31 Thread Klaus Ethgen
ep his configuration stuff of one application (especially when he has a shared $HOME). On the other hand there could be a tool to cleanup such stuff. But this might be not connected with the real packages then better a own application with a data base of know applications. Regards Klaus - --

Re: Bug#443507: python-gobject: Importing gobject fails after libglib upgrade

2009-05-15 Thread Klaus Ethgen
!) So maybe there can be a warning in the NEWS of grep or libpcre3 if the workaround exists on recent systems. Regards Klaus Ps. This is just a note x post to debian-devel to rfc. The bug shouldn't go open. - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1

Re: deprecating /usr as a standalone filesystem?

2009-05-14 Thread Klaus Ethgen
ame thing holds for /root. That is not always true. root _is_ special as it might be needed in single user mode or in emergency mode. There might also software very early in the boot process that need a writable root-$HOME. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.

What happens to snapshot.debian.net?

2009-03-22 Thread Klaus Ethgen
references to snapshot are broken. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux

Re: Bug#419209: lvm2: Hangs during snapshot creation

2009-03-06 Thread Klaus Ethgen
at Jan 10 19:55:48 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux That seems to be the only difference, x86_64. What about the other bug reporter? What kernel and what setup do you have? Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen Fi

Re: Bug#419209: lvm2: Hangs during snapshot creation

2009-03-05 Thread Klaus Ethgen
bug just lowering the severity. > On Wed, Mar 04, 2009 at 10:44:28AM +0100, Klaus Ethgen wrote: > > first of all, I raised the severity of the bug to critical as it makes > > the whole system break. > > lvm2 manages blockdevices via the device-mapper framework, so it manages

Re: Bug#419209: lvm2: Hangs during snapshot creation

2009-03-05 Thread Klaus Ethgen
7 Removing /dev/sysvg/lv_usr activate/fs.c:174 Linking /dev/sysvg/lv_usr -> /dev/mapper/sysvg-lv_usr activate/fs.c:167 Removing /dev/sysvg/sv_usr activate/fs.c:174 Linking /dev/sysvg/sv_usr -> /dev/mapper/sysvg-sv_usr Which seems to look just normal for me. But well, I do not

Re: Bug#419209: lvm2: Hangs during snapshot creation

2009-03-04 Thread Klaus Ethgen
stable for years now. Am So den 30. Mär 2008 um 10:52 schrieb Bastian Blank: > # Automatically generated email from bts, devscripts version 2.9.26 > severity 419209 important The severity of this bug is absolute critical and not just important! Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus

Re: Bug#482396: Double detecting the same input device

2009-02-18 Thread Klaus Ethgen
r for it): Am So den 22. Jun 2008 um 17:29 schrieb Klaus Ethgen: > Hi Brice, > > Am Sa den 21. Jun 2008 um 6:43 schrieb Brice Goglin: > > > > You want to remove the first mouse section here. Otherwise X will get > > > > the events for your trackpoint twice (once

Re: Kernel legacy

2009-02-01 Thread Klaus Ethgen
needs to be stable all run Kernel 2.4.) > > s/lenny/etch/ ? lenny is still correct. etch runs fine with kernel 2.4 (and lower by the way). > > Is there any scenario what happens to such systems when lenny gets > > stable? > > etch is already stable Yes, etch is but no

Kernel legacy

2009-02-01 Thread Klaus Ethgen
.) Is there any scenario what happens to such systems when lenny gets stable? Background: The glibc in lenny is compiled to be incompatible with kernels lower than 2.6. I do not know if there are options to use newer glibc with older kernels. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-06 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Am Sa den 6. Dez 2008 um 21:38 schrieb Daniel Moerner: > xmms is gone: It is still in stable and there are many installations. More than 7000 in popcon. And there is still no alternative. Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenh

Re: Packages still depending on GTK+ 1.2

2008-12-06 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You forgot xmms. It is still heavily used and there are no alternative for it. (It is just such a application as xv - very old but there are no alternative that completely replace it (in all facets).) Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen

Re: Test Debian : IPv6 pitfalls ?

2008-10-06 Thread Klaus Ethgen
ugh about ipv6 and the pitfalls to use it. > Anybody feels like improving IPv6 wiki page[1] to explain those pitfalls > (if any) ? Better explain the points which are no pitfalls. This list might be smaller. :-) Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://ww

Spam-Problem with linux.debian.user.german

2008-09-29 Thread Klaus Ethgen
reason ever or is that spam that try to get me on a pishing page? Regards Klaus Ethgen [0] Good that this list is english and not german. I can not swear that good in english. - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EM

Re: Considerations for lilo removal

2008-06-17 Thread Klaus Ethgen
ver, starting install-grub in the first shell and then xfs_freeze -u in a second do fix the problem. But this is only a workaround. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint:

Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

2008-06-17 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Martin, Am Di den 17. Jun 2008 um 11:50 schrieb Martin Pitt: > Klaus Ethgen [2008-06-17 10:12 +0100]: > > I cannot prove that. Its sound quality is much better than the one of > > ALSA direct. (Well esd on top of OSS. It is not

Re: esound [was: Re: Non-related 'Recommends' dependencies - bug or not?]

2008-06-17 Thread Klaus Ethgen
ch is much better than the stuff which is recommended. Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGN

Re: Inconsistent archive

2008-06-04 Thread Klaus Ethgen
> So you want them at the top as well? No, I just expected it on one page all. Was just a layer 8 problem. :-) Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99

Re: Inconsistent archive

2008-06-03 Thread Klaus Ethgen
, so please ignore the mail. I did miss the link at the end of the page that there are 3 pages of entries and that one can go to the next page. Confusing. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Inconsistent archive

2008-06-03 Thread Klaus Ethgen
Klaus Ethgen [1] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=483856 - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIG

Re: dbus and initscripts

2008-06-03 Thread Klaus Ethgen
ould > automatically shutdown dependend services, if a service is stopped. That's not true see how portmap go around the limitation. This is how it is made stable. If you have a init system which touch all services which are depending for the one I restart then the init system might be bro

security embargos (was: Re: ssl security desaster)

2008-05-28 Thread Klaus Ethgen
bad people to attack (my) systems cause other need a embargo time to develop tools to help me seeing what exactly is vulnerable. The bad people might have ways to get to the informations about zero day vulnerabilities. Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.

Local root exploid

2008-02-10 Thread Klaus Ethgen
. Please excuse. I just wanted to bring your attention to http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/10/8 and http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/2/10/131 as well as to http://downloads.securityfocus.com/vulnerabilities/exploits/27704.c This might also apply to the current kernel. Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgen

Re: Bug#458061: RFH: cfs -- Cryptographic Filesystem

2007-12-28 Thread Klaus Ethgen
urich so I can see there if I will fix some bugs there. I am not a Debian maintainer but have several experiences with packaging and programming (C and perl). The days I am not at home. So I will make contact in new year. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen

Re: xinetd is a viable inet-superserver

2007-11-29 Thread Klaus Ethgen
I was really pissed when I realiced the (default on) option in /etc/defaults/xinetd as it has taken many time to find why the hell the new xinetd is handling services it is explicit not configured to do! One more was that I was using samba as daemon and was running into strange problems that many 1000

Re: xinetd is a viable inet-superserver

2007-11-28 Thread Klaus Ethgen
nsequences I believe it's necessary for an > inet-superserver provider to grok /etc/inetd.conf. Well, it might be clear for you but I install xinetd to get away from this crap of the old inetd config. So for me the idea that xinetd might use /etc/inetd.conf is a horror! (Well I c

Re: xinetd is a viable inet-superserver

2007-11-28 Thread Klaus Ethgen
to be the proper approach, I'll > try to write a patch asap. Why using the name of the service? In inetd.conf the name has to be the same than the port in /etc/services (and even some service might have multiple names). In xinetd the name can be any if you specify the service por

Re: xinetd is a viable inet-superserver

2007-11-27 Thread Klaus Ethgen
d/ own > configuration files _and_ inetd.conf then the former wins, which > sounds like a reasonable thing. And what if a service is intentional _not_ configured for xinetd and the inetd.conf is ignored? Best wishes Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.et

Re: stupid dependencies on update-inetd

2007-07-30 Thread Klaus Ethgen
be idiocy. But it IS a solution which work. Please also see the second choice I gave. In any case and to come to the begin again, the correct dependency would be: Depends: update-inetd Suggest: inet-superserver Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ p

Re: stupid dependencies on update-inetd

2007-07-30 Thread Klaus Ethgen
can do that: 1. Creating all needed configurations at build time 2. Having a single update-inetd which create ALL configurarions at install time. But this make update-inetd package as dependency for installation and NOT inet-superserver (the later can be suggestion as well.) Gruß Klaus - --

Re: stupid dependencies on update-inetd

2007-07-29 Thread Klaus Ethgen
n-devel@lists.debian.org as this is the right place for the discussion. - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP

Re: apt-get -y upgrade for non-interactive sessions - and replacing conf files in /etc

2007-07-05 Thread Klaus Ethgen
t to just replace the > configuration file without asking me, but it won't do that, even if I > pass the -y option. I think the following lines will help: export DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive export DEBIAN_PRIORITY=critical Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen

Re: Considerations for 'xmms' removal from Debian

2007-07-03 Thread Klaus Ethgen
NFS? I heard this crap only when using alsa. And even worse also if I move the mouse. But this is not a problem of xmms than of alsa as it happens in all applications. With OSS I never had problems like this. (In fact I never ever had problems ever, it just works. Regards Klaus Ethgen

Re: Bug#427297: ITP: sturmbahnfahrer -- simulated obstacle course for automobiles

2007-06-03 Thread Klaus Ethgen
ise the could be suited. (Bad times today that you always have to fear about getting suited. :-( Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6

Re: tool to turn redundant files into symlinks

2007-05-21 Thread Klaus Ethgen
already does it, I can probably just > parse the output of one of these programs and do the symlink replacement > myself. That would be the other way. finddup can print out the double files. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4E

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-26 Thread Klaus Ethgen
test pieces of software in the linux > world right now. Best advertise. :-) (I mean that serious.) Best wishes Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-26 Thread Klaus Ethgen
em to my own repository cause to often it was just got ignored. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN

Re: On maintainers not responding to bugs

2007-02-26 Thread Klaus Ethgen
Klaus Ps. Syntax "bugs" in this message have to be ignored. - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATU

Re: update-inetd

2007-01-14 Thread Klaus Ethgen
es arround NOT having dependencies for update-inetd but using it in postinst and/or prerm. Wishes Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE

Re: update-inetd

2007-01-12 Thread Klaus Ethgen
Wishes Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/L

Politeness was: woody removed from mirrors

2007-01-08 Thread Klaus Ethgen
! Best wishes Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iQEVAwUB

Bash /dev/tcp and /dev/udp

2006-11-23 Thread Klaus Ethgen
there is no way to do this with debian Linux so I have to switch to an other distribution like RedHat or even Susi^He. The related bug report is tagged as wontfix (146464) but this is absolute not reasonable. Best wishes Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethg

Re: Question: mount /var/run as tmpfs

2006-10-30 Thread Klaus Ethgen
ut creating there subdirectory. Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Orphaned Packages

2006-08-17 Thread Klaus Ethgen
finish the new maintainer procedure. I would be able and proud to give some work to debian but the my time is very limited. So is there a way to give official packages to debian without being a official maintainer? Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp

Re: Using the SSL snakeoil certificate

2006-07-20 Thread Klaus Ethgen
to stay with virtual per-service certificates, but to > link them to the common snakeoil certificate from ssl-certificates > during configuration and only if there is no other setting. That would be another way. Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de

Re: Hidden files

2006-06-06 Thread Klaus Ethgen
methods private -- no problem. But is it necessary to put them in common paths? I think this is more a misuse. Finished programs should be compiled in some way. Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klau

Hidden files

2006-06-06 Thread Klaus Ethgen
not registered to any package. I see ANY hidden file in /usr as a bug which should be fixed! Packages are: - - kaffe - - blender - - firefox - - libnss3-0d or libxul0d (/usr/lib/xulrunner/.autoreg) Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub

Re: Trouble with some X applications.

2006-04-29 Thread Klaus Ethgen
's been around for several years now. Please ask on -user. Its not a question. Its a fact! Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30

Re: Trouble with some X applications.

2006-04-29 Thread Klaus Ethgen
problemes. Beginnig with the futex implementation and ending with the "not whant" of the kernel developper to fix bugs in that tree. By the way, your link is not of use. Sorry about. Please do not answere the question with that the questions are under your niveau. I can forbear for suc

Trouble with some X applications.

2006-04-28 Thread Klaus Ethgen
two independing software. But which of the xorg components??? Did someone else has the same problemes? Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6

update-inetd and xinetd

2006-02-13 Thread Klaus Ethgen
s Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux)

*** POKED TIMER ***

2005-12-05 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 With newer upgrade of bind9 I get the Message "*** POKED TIMER ***" in the log several times. I'm not sure if this is a bug or just logpolution. Do anybody know about this issue and why it happens? Gruß Klaus - -

Closing bugs bevore the upload is available

2005-11-10 Thread Klaus Ethgen
bugs bevore it is available on servers. This break of the system musn't be. Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57

Linup

2005-11-10 Thread Klaus Ethgen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As there is no linup anymore I plan to take over this package on my private debian ftp. Is there anyone who has the last source package? On snapshoot.debian.net the relevant dir are not readable. Regards Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen

Re: per-user temp directories by default?

2005-11-07 Thread Klaus Ethgen
ill be silentely overwritten. Gruß Klaus - -- Klaus Ethgen http://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 88 26 2B -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.

Re: per-user temp directories by default?

2005-11-04 Thread Klaus Ethgen
lease don't do this by default as it break the security of many, many systems! Regards Klaus Ethgen - -- Klaus Ethgenhttp://www.ethgen.de/ pub 2048R/D1A4EDE5 2000-02-26 Klaus Ethgen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fingerprint: D7 67 71 C4 99 A6 D4 FE EA 40 30 57 3C 8

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