Bug#4511: nvi out of date

1996-09-19 Thread Robert Leslie
Package: nvi Version: 1.34-13 This version of nvi is quite old. Please can it be updated to 1.76 or later? It can be retrieved from: ftp://ftp.bostic.com/pub/nvi-1.76.tar.gz Thanks, -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#4491: msqld puts .tmp in wrong place

1996-09-14 Thread Robert Leslie
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Bug#2072: MANOPT not parsed well?

1995-12-29 Thread Robert Leslie
own into the resulting shell command above. I've tried many variations on quoting and backslashing, and none seem to give the desired results. Any ideas, or can this be classified as a bug? -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

zsh-2.6beta13-1 uploaded

1995-12-24 Thread Robert Leslie
9318701243ba104a6a25e54baf5dbf09 zsh-2.6beta13-1.deb -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

figlet-2.1.1-1 uploaded

1995-12-23 Thread Robert Leslie
root root51163 Dec 23 23:22 figlet-2.1.1-1.deb a0cae762bfad7cae84e14373f11dccb3 figlet-2.1.1-1.tar.gz 51c6fd9d6018ed91af1777304174469d figlet-2.1.1-1.diff.gz 10d715c6fb1e9b940d31c276b5c3db65 figlet-2.1.1-1.deb -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

bind-4.9.3BETA26-3 uploaded

1995-12-23 Thread Robert Leslie
21:20 bind-4.9.3BETA26-3.deb 8aff8d674f3fd05ff8d830e09e442e9f bind-4.9.3BETA26-3.tar.gz 68de1d709aa1fe4e3eae526aee2153d2 bind-4.9.3BETA26-3.diff.gz a25d1e7a0bd8e7fa5d3ecac1d4bafe7d bind-4.9.3BETA26-3.deb -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ELF flex

1995-12-23 Thread Robert Leslie
lex-2.5.2-2.diff.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root rob129524 Dec 23 02:36 flex-2.5.2-2.deb b1f9161bb387a5f7261ad7a5d441493b flex-2.5.2-2.tar.gz d6ac69a49dd1808a05a163c39a10b4dd flex-2.5.2-2.diff.gz 54c0a83418af27526f3b617f3b07248b flex-2.5.2-2.deb Happy Holidays. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

David J Meltzer: mailx-5.5 (slackware /bin/mail) security hole

1995-12-23 Thread Robert Leslie
FYI -- This appears to affect Debian's mailx as well. Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Forwarded Message Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 17:35:01 -0500 From: David J Meltzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: mailx-5.5 (slackware /bin/ma

Bug#2052: find over NFS

1995-12-19 Thread Robert Leslie
Package: cron Version: 3.0pl1-21 The `checksecurity' script should probably ignore NFS filesystems, or at least NFS filesystems which are mounted nodev && (nosuid || noexec). Otherwise this can have miserable effects esp. when the path to the NFS server crosses 14.4Kbps links. --

Re: New ftp method for dselect

1995-12-19 Thread Robert Leslie
this will be kinder to software needing to parse package names. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ELF flex

1995-12-19 Thread Robert Leslie
off your hands. Feedback appreciated. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2045: smb[u]mount not suid root

1995-12-18 Thread Robert Leslie
rship of all files and directories to be the same as the user who mounted the filesystem. So, it doesn't work well to require root to mount an SMB filesystem for a user (say, the user's home directory on an SMB server) because all the files will effectively be owned by root. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2045: smb[u]mount not suid root

1995-12-18 Thread Robert Leslie
installed suid root, they should also probably go in /bin or /usr/bin rather than /sbin? I'd prefer /usr/bin, but either would be fine. Thanks. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2043: genksyms

1995-12-18 Thread Robert Leslie
nel makefile calls /sbin/genksyms explicitly, which is why I think *something* ought to be there. Actually I see now it is a kernel version issue: 1.2.13 calls /usr/bin/genksyms, while 1.3.47 calls /sbin/genksyms. What to do? -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2043: genksyms

1995-12-17 Thread Robert Leslie
t least expects to find it in /sbin. I made a symlink to pacify my system, but perhaps it should really be moved there? -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2039: X server font erosion

1995-12-17 Thread Robert Leslie
G+L=Y-JL%4JM^Z"E%C#C!' MU(OH_("W,U_Z*YI^G697T5JH:X;L?XS!X*_8MC$IE8ZN_63*5LL9N@:68QSW M5,$ZU]3.=)(0IGA);6YC&R%[ZE:=\C0H#4LHW.(:][C(_C5!#9D6W.3N":$[ M;*YA>=I;,O:HJHJ2+$7OV,:+>J:!3I2/%*=KLM`"$COI<2/'#*7%6,;MC81= M:6X6QRIHXI:\LD*C5/>+-FHBU;[EMAIL PROTECTED]'"(HN7Q;$!E%-F#Y4UK2L9U4B M4X-2R#C$-*I(A>AF%WO=4&*U'Y$$%M#\6[C%AM6R$1NP7>$72!+C"#AJ=<\H MVUK*MP;)6$Z=:\GJ>M@,X[4H>LUFX!B6,AK?TL8R-J;_W(?BA2(V?HIM;S2* [EMAIL PROTECTED]&VZ4X7.KJ\NTBSU7CSE]"IP:X,ZIV4>N+*,@HG';R"G4._H MYJ%^ZUS*M132V`!5H=UWQ2SX_NU`S88FB:907W8]^Z$1ZGT.PG5KR3OILWW83<,-2AA6'9VV*MI!Y M?]YD[*MW[.7&@1EM8L9EQ&$]Y$6!]H=J+F)IMRS:-]OV*G(>L3E5^MH[$XG> F1=!S(`>II&[EMAIL PROTECTED]<'[R=NC!%7JEXWET&R[]T0D``#M5 ` end If I can provide any more helpful information, I will do so gladly. Thanks for any help. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/etc/X11/Xresources (xbase-3.1.2-5)

1995-12-16 Thread Robert Leslie
the new xterm didn't log anything into utmp; should this really be the default? Thanks. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

xkeycaps-2.29-1 (new package)

1995-12-16 Thread Robert Leslie
rob156247 Dec 16 06:05 xkeycaps-2.29-1.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 root root93393 Dec 16 06:00 xkeycaps-2.29-1.deb 7b78b5f4e1a44bb62c5aa84810ad8487 xkeycaps-2.29-1.tar.gz d2a87634dc508cd003447fbd7f123326 xkeycaps-2.29-1.deb -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2034: xbase-3.1.2-5 xdm problems

1995-12-16 Thread Robert Leslie
the preinst script: 30: if [ ! -L /usr/lib/X11 ] 31: then 32: echo "Warning: /usr/lib/X11 was not a symlink. It has been moved to" 33: echo "/usr/lib/X11.old" 34: mv /usr/lib/X11 /usr/lib/X11/old 35: fi -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2033: efax installation problems

1995-12-15 Thread Robert Leslie
d try to use the "correct" path instead wherever possible, but I agree this is probably rather insignificant. Thanks for the quick followup. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2033: efax installation problems

1995-12-15 Thread Robert Leslie
in /var/spool/fax instead, and b. This directory (and various subdirectories) are not created during installation (I have no idea what mode they should have?) -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

zsh-2.6beta12-1 uploaded

1995-12-14 Thread Robert Leslie
-2.6beta12-1.tar.gz 0b5cfa06f80ea1507d1f466e4e51a240 zsh-2.6beta12-1.deb -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2016: SysVinit, mount] SysVinit uses non-existant option for umount

1995-12-14 Thread Robert Leslie
#x27;s probably best that `umount' be as flexible as possible. I've sent a request to the util-linux maintainers to see why they changed it and if the option can be restored. Thanks. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mount-2.5-2 uploaded

1995-12-14 Thread Robert Leslie
NB: This version doesn't address the umount -n issue. Date: 14 Dec 95 08:50 UT Source: mount Binary: mount Version: 2.5-2 Description: mount: mount, umount, swapon, and swapoff. Priority: Low Changes: * Added /usr/doc/copyright information * Added libc5 dependency * Enhanced one error mess

Bug#1363: mount error messages do not match problem

1995-12-14 Thread Robert Leslie
oduced and a solution found, or (b) it is agreed the problem likely no longer exists. (In either case, the report should probably be reassigned to address the installation issue, unless that's already been taken care of?) -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#1363: mount error messages do not match problem

1995-12-13 Thread Robert Leslie
mount point is in > the ramdisk. The problem was a screwed up filesystem. > > So, "mount" needs to be fixed so that it prints appropriate error > messages. Also the install program needs to be fixed so that it won't > let the user make silly mistakes like this. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

/etc/fstab.sample

1995-12-13 Thread Robert Leslie
As long as I've been updating the mount package, I have a question: The mount package contains a "configuration" file /etc/fstab.sample. Would it not be better to include this file in /usr/doc/examples, or does something actually depend on it being in /etc? -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2016: SysVinit, mount] SysVinit uses non-existant option for umount

1995-12-12 Thread Robert Leslie
suggest the sysvinit scripts should indeed be changed. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mount-2.5-1

1995-12-11 Thread Robert Leslie
Date: 12 Dec 95 02:22 UT Source: mount Binary: mount Version: 2.5-1 Description: mount: mount, umount, swapon, and swapoff. Priority: Low Changes: Upgraded to 2.5; built for ELF. Files: -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob 45387 Dec 11 21:20 mount-2.5-1.tar.gz -rw-rw-r-- 1 rob rob

Re: debian-1.0 availability

1995-12-08 Thread Robert Leslie
I don't know about other mirrors, but AFAICT tsx-11.mit.edu doesn't even carry the 0.93R6 release any more. It only offers debian-1.0. -- Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]