Has much discussion been had about a possible configuration file
management script for the package config scripts to use?
For example, I installed cron on a Debian box, and then installed mgetty.
Mgetty placed the following at the end of my /etc/crontab:
#-- mgetty begin
20,40 * * * * roo
One of the faculty I have to support here is using Caldera's OpenLinux.
Although Debian is still my favorite, I am pleased with some of the easy
configuration features of OpenLinux.
For those of you who are unaware, OpenLinux has a directory under /etc
called, I believe, sysconfig. In there are b
I was just poking around on the Debian web site and noticed that there's a
list of some known vulnerabilities in some packages.
Has anyone discussed making a tool that could ftp a current copy of this
list (in a properly formatted form, of course) and using it along with
dpkg to determine if a sy
On Wed, 3 Dec 1997, Adam Heath wrote:
> How about this. Some one creates a script, that is run from /etc/crontab.
> Whenever this script is run, it checks to see if another program is supposed
> to be run. If so, it does it, then checks to see when the next script is
> supposed to run. It the
On 3 Dec 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
> Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Another way, that sould comply with policy, were if cron came with a
> > update-crontab script, that was responsible for modifying /etc/crontab,
> > in a similar fasion to update-inetd.
>
> I think that this, or s
On Thu, 4 Dec 1997, Joey Hess wrote:
> Some things to look out for, though:
>
> - if the file alter-file is a conffile, there will be problems later when
> you upgrade the package containg the conffile.
I'm not sure I follow what you're getting at.
The way I'm thinking, if a package (say, cron
On 12 Dec 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
> Scott Ellis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > I HAVEN'T HEARD ANY REASONS WHY UTMP CORRUPTION IS SO EVIL THAT WE
> > NEED TO MAKE ANYONE WHO WANTS TO RUN A FEW LIBC6 PROGRAMS ON BO GO
> > THROUGH HELL.
>
> Say you're an ISP running Debian (bo) on a bunch of
On Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Brian Bassett wrote:
> I recently switched to Debian from RedHat 4.2 and the one thing that I
> think that Debian could really use is an administration tool.
I suggested something similar a couple weeks ago and was informed that
this discussion had taken place already. I gue
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