On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 12:30:02AM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >Hopefully, Debian Policy (and FHS) will allow the use of libexec some
> >day...
>
> Debian's not a BSD, regardless of the kernel that it's running on.
AFAIK, /libexec is used by the theoretical GNU system as well.
Michael
Roger Leigh wrote:
>If it's not meant to be invoked directly by a user, it should be put
>in /usr/libexec/news/inews. It's located under /usr/libexec on the
>BSDs.
>
>Hopefully, Debian Policy (and FHS) will allow the use of libexec some
>day...
Christ, no. If it's not meant to be run by any user
Vincent Zweije <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>From the (admittedly years old) impression I got from inn, inews should be
> seen as the news injector (inject-news), corresponding to what sendmail
> is for mail, meant as a backend to other programs that allow you to
> post messages, but not supposed
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 08:26:48PM +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:17:15PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> || What program should a user use to post a message from the command-line,
> || then? I've always used inews for this, and I think it's quite reasonable
> || for user
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:45:10PM +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote:
> From the (admittedly years old) impression I got from inn, inews
> should be seen as the news injector (inject-news), corresponding to
> what sendmail is for mail, meant as a backend to other programs that
> allow you to post message
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:45:10PM +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote:
> From the (admittedly years old) impression I got from inn, inews
> should be seen as the news injector (inject-news), corresponding to
> what sendmail is for mail, meant as a backend to other programs that
> allow you to post message
On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 06:13:08PM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
|| On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 05:45:10PM +0200, Vincent Zweije wrote:
|| No, the proper place would not be /usr/sbin, "helper binary" does not
|| match the FHS criteria for /usr/sbin/
|| http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.2/fhs-4.10.htm
>From the (admittedly years old) impression I got from inn, inews should be
seen as the news injector (inject-news), corresponding to what sendmail
is for mail, meant as a backend to other programs that allow you to
post messages, but not supposed to be called directly by the end user.
As such, the
On Jun 29, Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> Afaik the basic mode of operation and options are compatibel,
>> inews even diverts the inews from cnews. Using alternatives sounds
>> nice.
>and of course it must be installed in /usr/sbin/ in that case, just like
>/usr/sbin/sendmail.
On Jun 27, Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I maintain slrn, which can run inews to post news. We apparently have
>three inews programs in debian; inewsinn puts it in /usr/bin/inews,
>while inews and cnews put it in /usr/lib/news/inews. My question is how
I'd say fix inews/cnews. inews has
Bernd Eckenfels <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 10:26:08AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
>> Afaik the basic mode of operation and options are compatibel,
>> inews even diverts the inews from cnews. Using alternatives sounds
>> nice.
> and of course it must be installed in /usr
On Sat, Jun 28, 2003 at 10:26:08AM +0200, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> Afaik the basic mode of operation and options are compatibel,
> inews even diverts the inews from cnews. Using alternatives sounds
> nice.
and of course it must be installed in /usr/sbin/ in that case, just like
/usr/sbin/sendmail.
Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I maintain slrn, which can run inews to post news. We apparently have
> three inews programs in debian; inewsinn puts it in /usr/bin/inews,
> while inews and cnews put it in /usr/lib/news/inews.
Actually inewsinn puts it in /usr/lib/news/bin/, /usr/bin/inews
On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:52:50PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> I maintain slrn, which can run inews to post news. We apparently have
> three inews programs in debian; inewsinn puts it in /usr/bin/inews,
> while inews and cnews put it in /usr/lib/news/inews. My question is how
> is a program like slrn
I maintain slrn, which can run inews to post news. We apparently have
three inews programs in debian; inewsinn puts it in /usr/bin/inews,
while inews and cnews put it in /usr/lib/news/inews. My question is how
is a program like slrn supposed to find an inews program to run? If it
searches PATH it w
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