I converted my debiandoc package to the new source format and
changed its name to dwww (debiandoc is easy to confuse with
various other packages).
It's in master's Incoming now. I'd appreciate it if people could
try it out. It's sure to have lots of bug (which is why it's
called 1.0), and it's sti
>
> Package: gs
> Version: 4.01-4
>
> The commands
>
> $ gs -g100x100 some_postscript_file.ps
> $ gs -dDEVICEWIDTH=100 -dDEVICEHEIGHT=100 some_postscript_file.ps
> $ gs some_postscript_file.ps
> all produce the same results.
OK in the second case, gs gets executed with:
gs -dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=
Package: xgalaga
Version: 1.6c-1
The file /usr/games/xgalaga/.xgalscores is world writable. The above file
should not be world writable because any user can edit the score table.
xgal is not sgid aware, so fixing this problem may not just be a case
of changing permissions.
Package: Perl
Version: 5.003-2
The following directories are world writable. This could cause problems in
scripts which trust these directories.
drwxrwxrwx root root /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux
drwxrwxrwx root root /usr/lib/perl5/File
drwxrwxrwx root root /usr
I mailed Bruce to ask him to ensure that my subscriptions were
changed, because my machine's mail name is changing from
chiark.chu.cam.ac.uk to chiark.greenend.org.uk.
I had no response before I stopped receiving mail at the old name; my
mail at chiark.greenend.org.uk is being delayed at the momen
marin62# !/2:38
/etc/init.d/apache stop
no /usr/sbin/apache found; none killed.
marin63# !ps 2:38
ps -aex | grep apache
9448 p4 S0:01 ssh -l root localhost cd
/ho
Package: libpaper
Version: 1.0.3-1
While attempting to build libpaper, I received the following message:
make[2]: Entering directory `/bld/src/new/libpaper-1.0.3/src'
gcc -O2 -c paperconf.c -o paperconf.o
paperconf.c:9: paper.h: No such file or directory
make[2]:
Yves Arrouye writes:
Yves> I'd like to take the a2ps package if its maintainer does not plan to
Yves> maintain it anymore: I have patches to make it work with libpaper
Yves> that I'd like to see in the Debian version.
To best of my knowledge, a2ps and a2gs are orphaned. Cas
Package: texbin
Version: 3.1415-5
The following directory is created world writable:
/var/spool/texmf/fonts/pk/deskjet
It is not clear which package the above directory belongs to but it looks
like it belongs to tex.
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Format: 1.5
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1996 12:01:22 +0400
Source: mime-support
Binary: mime-support
Architecture: source all
Version: 2.03-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Brian White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Description:
mime-support - MIME files 'mime.typ
Package: mh
Version: 6.8.4-7
After installing the new mh package (from 6.8.4-2) I find that `inc' waits
several seconds and then reports:
inc: unable to lock and fopen /var/spool/mail/rob
According to /etc/mh/mtstailor, "lockstyle: 1" apparently means to do the
correct form of Debian mailbox loc
Also included below, this one time.
Topic: Linux in general and Debian in particular.
Time: about two hours (including pauses?).
Utilities: overhead, possibly a computer.
Audience: about 200 people, admin types
1. Introduction
+ overview of talk
+ my
Package: popclient
Version: 3.05-3
Popclient doesn't work in APOP mode (which md5 hashes passwords so that they
don't travel in cleartext anymore) which is too bad as I just installed it to
get APOP ...
There are two problems in the package. First, configure has to be told that
APOP is desire
There's probably no point in making patches that Ian disapproves of, as
he'll just change them back.
Guy
Uploaded to master.debian.org.
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Date: 25 Sep 96 04:18 UT
Format: 1.6
Distribution: unstable stable
Urgency: High
Maintainer: Robert Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Source: bind
Version: 4.9.4-P1-1
Binary: bind
Architecture: i386 source
Description:
bind: An Inter
> According to /etc/mh/mtstailor, "lockstyle: 1" apparently means to do the
> correct form of Debian mailbox locking, however `inc' isn't setgid mail so it
> can't create the lock file.
Just sticking in my two cents.
I'm curious as to what changed on Debian to make this a requirement
for mail pr
This is a game after all. I dont think we should worry about someone
editing the scores file.
I cannot see any other games that I have installed from the Debian
distribution to be using setgid. What is the custom of doing things under
debian?
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, D. Charalambous wrote:
95dmc>Pac
Package: passwd
Version: 1.0-5
When encountering NIS overide entries (like "+kubla::") while changing
a local password, the programm will fill the empty fields with the string
"(null)".
Package: less
Version: 321
Apparently someone decided that looking at zero-length files is not very
usefull and put the helpscreen instead. These commands show the error:
> touch lesstest
> less lesstest
By which less promptly responds by showing me how it should be used.
Grtz,
Wichert.
Package: ncftp
Version: 2.3.0-6
This package has neither manual nor info pages. It also does install the
copyright file as /usr/doc/ncftp/copyright instead of /usr/doc/copyright/ncftp.
Dominik> Package: ncftp
Dominik> Version: 2.3.0-6
Dominik>
Dominik> This package has neither manual nor info pages.
That is fixed in both versions -7 and -8. Please upgrade.
Dominik> It also does install the copyright file as
Dominik> /usr/doc/ncftp/copyright instead of /usr/doc/
I took myself off the debian-devel mailing list a while
back. Could I be resubscribed please. The web page no
longer allows you to subscribe to this mailing list
Thanks Dale
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> When encountering NIS overide entries (like "+kubla::") while changing
> a local password, the programm will fill the empty fields with the string
> "(null)".
I can't duplicate this. On my system, `+kubla::' gets replaced
with `+kubla::0:0:::'.
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Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:50:32 -0400
From: Jon Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Linux Servers mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list SERVER-LINUX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Out of ptys
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, Michael Dillon
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Date: Tue, 24 Sep 1996 22:51:31 -0700
From: Ken Rea <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Reply-To: Linux Servers mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Multiple recipients of list SERVER-LINUX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Out of ptys
Yep, I didn't care much for dselect ei
> I can't duplicate this. On my system, `+kubla::' gets replaced
> with `+kubla::0:0:::'. People knowledgable about NIS told me that was
> ok.
My bug-report was inaccurate:
It happens when passwd encounters a "+kubla" entry (without colons).
Then it will insert something like:
+kubla:(nul
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0.1
dpkg-buildpackage fails to build packages with binary data files in the source
tree because dpkg-source bails out when doing the diffs. This prevents the
build of the kbd package.
Package: at
Version: 2.9b-1
The at command seems to reread /etc/group each minute or so. If run with
ypbind this will cause an extraordinary load on the network and nis
servers.
I had to switch of the at runs on all my machines that run NIS since we
have a group for each of our 600 or so users an
Package: dpkg
Version: 1.4.0
dpkg compares falsely when the implict 0 epoch is made explicit.
$ dpkg --compare-versions '0:2' eq '0:2' ; echo $?
1
$ dpkg --compare-versions '1:2' gt '0:2' ; echo $?
1
$ dpkg --compare-versions '1:2' eq '0:2' ; echo $?
0
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Dominik Kubla wrote:
> It happens when passwd encounters a "+kubla" entry (without colons).
> Then it will insert something like:
>
> +kubla:(null):5999:103:(null):(null):(null)
>
> chosing apparently random values for uid/gid. The installed libc version
> is 5.2.18-11.
Acc
We had severe problems with our Campus Network which is fully based on
Debian. We are using the "one group a user" approach that is Debian
standard. We are running two NIS Servers one master one slave and a couple
of Server that utilize these two main NIS Servers.
I finally ran one of those in deb
I think a refile should be done, because (at least to my knowledge) the
usage of "[+-]login" as NIS notation is widespread.
Pleas note that this also happens when there are netgroup entries and
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
is a legal netgroup entry.
Dominik
I applied this crack script to my system, with abuse 1.10-4 installed, and
it got me a root shell. I'm posting to debian-devel because I believe this
is a really old and well known hole in abuse, so I see no point in covering
this up.
Here's the script:
--cut--
xemacs worked until this morning, when I used
dselect to upgrade some packages.
Now, when I type xemacs, I get:
fleming:~$ xemacs
xemacs: can't resolve symbol 'xbitmap'
xemacs: can't resolve symbol 'xbitmap'
xemacs: can't resolve symbol 'xbitmap'
xemacs: can't resolve symbol 'xbitmap'
xemacs: ca
Christoph Lameter wrote:
> This is a game after all. I dont think we should worry about someone
> editing the scores file.
Of course we should worry about it! Somebody could fill up the /var
partition this way!
Thanks,
Peter
--
Peter TobiasEMail:
Fachhochschu
Re comments such as:
| > Getting dselect to install the packages I wanted was a real pain [...]
| Yep, I didn't care much for dselect either. [...]
1) I think dpkg / dselect / ... are tremendously important
and impressive! I'm used to the convenience of the SGI
package management system,
> Forwarded message from debian-devel to file as a bug report:
>
> > Hi...
> >
> > I'd rather open this for discussion that a bug report, but I'd like to
> > have multiple root accounts (ie: root, root2, root3 etc) on one system -
> > however it buggers adduser up when adding a normal user.
> >
>
Hi Dale --
> When I try to send e-mail to Bill at: [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get a no
> such user error. Does anyone have a good contact address for Bill?
Bill sent a message to debian-devel a few days ago from this address:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Better yet, does anyone have a copy of the patch we did
I intend to replace the lpr package by lprng.
This is the first release of lprng; please test it.
Before installing this package you have to remove lpr by calling 'dpkg
-r lpr' ; I will add the Conflicts and Replaces fields in the next
release.
The old lpr package had some facility for invoking
It is indeed possible to put the configuration scripts in a package.
However, it doesn't go on the base system, it's installed on a
mini-root floppy. I will split the boot-floppies package into several
packages, and these will include a package for the configuration
scripts. When that's done, I wi
The boot floppies contain a program called "star" that extracts a tar on
the standard input. Someone could beef this up a bit or at least document
it. The boot floppies make a reasonable rescue disk set now.
Thanks
Bruce
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