David Brinks writes ("Re: Very weird stuff on ftp.debian.org"):
> Give your cron a shot again, Ian. [...]
It succeeded some time earlier today, but I've only just got around to
answering my mail. Thanks for getting it fixed.
The new trn, dpkg and texinfo packages are now av
On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Hmm. Unfortunately I'm trying to use rcp, which doesn't seem to be
> able to cope.
>
[..]
>
> I suppose that taking the machine down to fix the underlying fs is
> probably not advisable.
>
Give your cron a shot again, Ian. I had to fix a few things an
On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, Ian Jackson wrote:
>
> I suppose that taking the machine down to fix the underlying fs is
> probably not advisable.
>
Already been done.
> Also, the /debian.org directory (rather than the mountpoint) ought not
> to be world-writeable, really ...
Well we were tring to figure
Ian Murdock writes ("Re: Very weird stuff on ftp.debian.org"):
> I noticed this today, too, but I forgot about it until now.
> Basically, after logging in and noticing "Permission denied", I did
> a "cd /", and then a "cd", and everything appeared
I think it's an old BSD bug. The directory /debian.org, before anything
else is mounted on it, has odd permissions. You have to unmount what's
on top of it to see that, but I bet that's it.
Bruce
I noticed this today, too, but I forgot about it until now.
Basically, after logging in and noticing "Permission denied", I did
a "cd /", and then a "cd", and everything appeared to work normally
after that.
It shouldn't be happening, of course, but this is how I got around it.
I have quite a backlog of failed uploads from my cron job. There
seems to be some kind of very strange thing going on:
$ cd /
$ echo ~
/home/debian.org/accounts/iwj
$ cd home
$ ls -al
total 4
dr-xr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Sep 28 22:41 .
drwxr-xr-x 24 root wheel 1024 Sep 27 16:53 ..
lr-xr-xr
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