Re: Many ports open by default

2001-05-04 Thread Tom Lear
On Mon, Apr 30, 2001 at 11:52:46PM +, Will Lowe wrote: > Sure, don't run the daemon at all. When you install exim, "rm > /etc/init.d/rc?.d/S*exim" and it won't start. Local processes will be BTW, I think this is what ssh should do if you choose not to run the daemon on startup (rather than m

Intent to package: cooledit

1999-05-25 Thread Tom Lear
On Fri, 14 May 1999, Leon Breedt wrote: > Martin Schulze spake thus: > > > I wonder if/when/why not/how/who there is/will be/will package > > the CoolEdit HTML editor? > > The author works for the same company as I do, and asked me to > package it, but I really don't have the time. > > I'd appr

Netscape under unstable...

1999-05-20 Thread Tom Lear
Is it just me or is netscape crashing more recently? Every machine that I have following unstable is having problems with netscape crashing, but the machines following stable work fine. - Tom Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge | Status=Not

Re: Time to rewrite dpkg

1999-05-19 Thread Tom Lear
On Wed, 19 May 1999, Aaron Van Couwenberghe wrote: > Notably, I'm going to be writing it in C++. This will add about 270k > to the boot disks' root image, but as the floppy install methods are for the > most part phasing out under the shadow of easier methods, I'm not going to > lose any sle

Re: Where does 'www-data' come from?

1999-01-20 Thread Tom Lear
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Eduardo Marcel Macan wrote: > We seem to have a ever-standing bug against postgresql saying we > cannot have a user called www-data accessing databases (postgresql > complains about the '-' in the name, it looks like it is not a valid char > for postgresql usernames at a

Re: Your Stealth Mail Bomber

1999-01-20 Thread Tom Lear
On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Zephaniah E, Hull wrote: > Well, I think its time that we start trying to truly enforce our spam > policy... Advertising policy. Yes this is long overdue. - Tom

Re: login time limits in slink???

1998-10-15 Thread Tom Lear
On Thu, 15 Oct 1998, Craig Sanders wrote: > On 15 Oct 1998, Paul Crowley wrote: > > > Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > anyone know what it is in slink which is enforcing idle-timeout and daily > > > time limits on serial lines? > > > > I don't have this problem, and I haven't

Re: Thoughts on installation

1998-10-13 Thread Tom Lear
On Mon, 12 Oct 1998, Dave Swegen wrote: > lilo.conf there and then in some manner. I would also like to say I think > the default lilo.conf is a mess, to put it mildly. It is badly > structured, makes the process of adding other images less than obvious and

Re: Top source

1998-10-07 Thread Tom Lear
On Wed, 7 Oct 1998, Peter Iannarelli wrote: > Hello all: > > What package hosts the top command? dreamer:~% dpkg -S /usr/bin/top procps: /usr/bin/top > I want to see if I can get the thing going > for multi-CPU systems. I use it on multi-CPU systems. What doesn't work about it?

Re: automating the "Intents to package" was Re: Please follow protocol when you announce your Intents to package

1998-06-25 Thread Tom Lear
On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Ok, I'm game. I have had to fend off enough people from taking my > >packages that this is worth my time. Besides, I enjoy writing CGI, call > >me sick. What do we want/need/desire/despise and let's g

Intent to package newscache...

1998-06-10 Thread Tom Lear
I intend to package newscache a free cache server for the USENET News system available under the GNU General Public License. It's home page is http://www.infosys.tuwien.ac.at/~gschwind/NewsCache/ Hope there aren't any objections... - Tom

Intent to pakage astrolog

1998-06-09 Thread Tom Lear
Astrolog is a many featured and customizable astrology chart calculation program for DOS, Windows, Mac, and Unix, used in 30+ countries on six continents. It is 100% freeware and requires no registration fee. :) The complete source code is available . Astrolog features: wheels, aspects, midpoints,