Re: dcfgtool and clones

1997-06-01 Thread Peter Tobias
Can't we use something like our current menu system? The pdmenu package could be a good starting point for a sysadmin tool. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04

Re: inetd question

1997-06-14 Thread Peter Tobias
or all services if the ALL keyword has been used). Using "nowait.120" is of course a solution but it is probably better to find the application that is causing the problem. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP

Re: inetd question

1997-06-14 Thread Peter Tobias
does it? If squid receives a request from a local user and squid wants to check the identity it will call the local ident/auth service (which will be called by inetd). Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP ID EFAA400D,

Re: inetd question

1997-06-17 Thread Peter Tobias
find the reason (the sender!) of the ident requests (if it is a local service/system the ident lookups for that service/system should probably be turned off). Setting the limit to 120 will keep the system running but won't reduce the (maybe unnecessary) traffic. If the number of requests c

tin copyright problems?

1997-06-17 Thread Peter Tobias
this copyright notice * is included prominently in any copy made. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MA

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-17 Thread Peter Tobias
n one "Upstream-Site" field is allowed. Not for alternate sites but for packages which have more than one upstream site (for example netstd). Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06

Re: inetd question

1997-06-18 Thread Peter Tobias
line would allow access from 172.26.x.x without ident lookup. Every other address would cause an ident lookup. or - use ipfwadm to protect the ident port Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerpri

Re: Use of suidmanager

1997-06-25 Thread Peter Tobias
in /etc and maybe some small tools (checkperms etc.). Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail th

Re: intent to package rinetd

1997-12-08 Thread Peter Tobias
d seems to handle all connections from one process. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the wo

Re: intent to package rinetd

1997-12-10 Thread Peter Tobias
l copies. The author makes no * representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. * It is provided "as is" without express or implied warranty. */ It would have to go to non-free ... Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> &

Re: problems with nfs and libc6

1997-12-31 Thread Peter Tobias
olve the problem here. > rpc.nfsd still dies. Even a re-compilation of my own didn't help. Please try the new netstd-3.01. It should fix the problem. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint =

Re: Virtual Package: ftp-server | ftpd

1998-04-14 Thread Peter Tobias
be more precise DebianNet.pm) will then read this new ftpd-alternatives file on startup and will only enable the line which has been selected as default (or the one with the highest priority). Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROT

Re: Making the libc5-libc6 upgrade to be safe (was: netstd...)

1998-04-17 Thread Peter Tobias
work. Due to an ext2fs problem I had to restore the netstd sources from tape and I forgot to re-apply this patch along with two other patches from Topi Miettinen to the netstd sources. This has been fixed with netstd 3.05. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: netstsd depends on cpp?

1998-04-26 Thread Peter Tobias
he next netbase package will suggest cpp. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: What to do with /bin/perl symlink?

1998-04-27 Thread Peter Tobias
et (from netstd, they should be moved to > netbase) No, netstd is the right place for them. netbase only provides the tools to configure the network (ifconfig/route/...) and to get other networking services up and running (inetd/portmapper). Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECT

Re: man 2 intro - SVID (fwd)

1998-04-28 Thread Peter Tobias
On Apr 27, Liran Zvibel wrote: > BTW2: What do you think about Stevens' book "Advanced Programming in the > Unix Environment"? Should I buy it? Yes! IMHO it is a great book. It contains all you need to know about Unix programming. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[E

Re: netstd tools in the base system (was Re: What to do with /bin/perl symlink?)

1998-04-28 Thread Peter Tobias
so I know which name I have to use for the Replace/Conflicts line in the netstd control file. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PROPOSAL: Services, inetd and xinetd

1998-04-28 Thread Peter Tobias
ned numbers" RFC and other unix systems otherwise it could happen that some unix systems can't talk to each other because they don't use the same port numbers for the service. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]&g

Re: /etc/host.conf /etc/protocols, and /etc/services

1995-09-30 Thread Peter Tobias
he same problem might exist with /etc/protocols and getprotoent, getprotobyname and getprotobynumber. Because of these reasons Ian M. put them on the basedisk. Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachberei

Re: /etc/host.conf /etc/protocols, and /etc/services

1995-09-30 Thread Peter Tobias
ersions of these files (especially /etc/services and /etc/protocols)? Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany

Re: Unidentified subject!

1995-10-16 Thread Peter Tobias
the > XFree86-2.1 distribution. (from the description field...) I think it's better to use a different name. Maybe we'll have a binary package with the tools for general national language support sometimes. What about "xnls", "motifnls" or "nlsmotif&quo

Bug#1711: adduser replaces NIS entries in /etc/passwd

1995-10-20 Thread Peter Tobias
Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany

Re: Telnetd Environment Vulnerability (fwd)

1995-11-03 Thread Peter Tobias
at this point. Netstd versions 1.21-1 and above are ok (or 1.20 and above if you use ld.so v1.7.x). Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constant

Bug#1809: bind doesn't document stats log entries

1995-11-06 Thread Peter Tobias
a non autoritative answer SNXD- sent them a negative response I'll add something like this to /usr/doc/net/bind. Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik

Re: ftp.debian.org incoming.uk needs update

1995-11-07 Thread Peter Tobias
les in this directory should already be at ftp.debian.org -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany

dipconfig script ...

1995-11-22 Thread Peter Tobias
ON3/)X:@Q!F=28^'8S2&*]" SHR$S\;FE(%/N$(9K8/MA>)(4Q\F^KG MP'NT\=PD4)TV/J +*68[9-3V<>Q)( KR\5^]U(I$0"Y]%9+773F*CPMWMJ C MF=Q*G)V$N51S)5Y4Y4SIK;>@WV#W!"39I&6/DO=3(:Z^"JE7UWWII=C2##V3 MDMA8W<'**]B">#O92OL%3C?H6A?'(JJGB9^YN[U41O6KU:[

patch for dipconfig ...

1995-11-23 Thread Peter Tobias
ot;2>&1 >/dev/tty"; +$tty = `tty`; +$rd = "2>&1 >$tty"; restart: Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany

Re: antisocial X11 apps: xtet42, chimera

1995-11-23 Thread Peter Tobias
work, and ctl-alt-del doesn't > work. This condition persists for: > > xtet42: 4 () minutes > Chimera: eleven (!!!) minutes Is it Cyrix 486-40 CPU? I remember seeing some similar reports in a linux newsgroup. Peter -- Peter Tobias

Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

1995-11-27 Thread Peter Tobias
t; Does anyone else think it would be a good idea to combine some of > these very small packages together into a somewhat larger one ? Yes, that's a good idea. There could be separate packages for system tools (memtest, bogomips, ...), for console tools (open,

Bug#1915: Perl doesn't like the number 0

1995-11-28 Thread Peter Tobias
Package: perl Version: 5.002-1 (a.out) The following program prints "0.e-1" instead of "0". for ($j = 0; $j <= 7; $j++) { print "$j\n"; } Output: 0.e-1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Os

Bug#1916: perl: wrong entries in Config.pm

1995-11-28 Thread Peter Tobias
postinst script (Config.pm should be a conffile then). mydomain='.daft.com' myhostname='perv' myuname='linux perv 1.2.13 #3 thu sep 21 01:26:52 pdt 1995 i486 ' cf_by='torin' cf_email='[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Peter -- Peter Tobias

Bug#1916: perl: wrong entries in Config.pm

1995-11-29 Thread Peter Tobias
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > Peter Tobias spoke unto the world and said: > >Package: perl > >Version: 5.002-1 (a.out) > > > > > >The following entries in /usr/lib/perl5/i486-linux/5.002/Config.pm > >are wrong: > > > >installarchlib='/usr

Bug#1915: Perl doesn't like the number 0

1995-11-29 Thread Peter Tobias
Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: > Peter Tobias spoke unto the world: > >Package: perl > >Version: 5.002-1 (a.out) > >The following program prints "0.e-1" instead of "0". > >for ($j = 0; $j <= 7; $j++) { > > print "$j\n"; > &

Bug#2011: very silly messages from rsh

1995-12-12 Thread Peter Tobias
yrddin -l nonexistent echo hi > myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk: Address already in use > -chiark:~/mail> rsh myrddin -l iwj10 dpkg -l '"net*"' > myrddin.chu.cam.ac.uk: Address already in use As you already said, it's the getopt bug + another libc4 bug. Peter -- Pe

bind package, maintainer wanted ...

1995-12-16 Thread Peter Tobias
Hi, I'm searching for a new maintainer for the bind package. I don't use it myself so I'm probably not the right person to maintain it. Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Ele

bind package, new maintainer!

1995-12-16 Thread Peter Tobias
Hi, the new maintainer for the bind package is Robert Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PRO

Re: Bug#2079: wu-ftpd xferstats

1996-01-01 Thread Peter Tobias
2 += substr($b, 8, 2); $date1 - $date2; Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany

Re: Bug#2081: named does not start

1996-01-02 Thread Peter Tobias
Michael Alan Dorman wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jean-Marc Bourguet w > rites: > >PS=`ps -p $PID 2>/dev/null| tail -1 | grep named` > > You might want to make this [...] ... or just update the bind package to 4.9.3-BETA26-2 (a.out) or 4.9.3-BETA26-3 (elf).

Bug#2082: X11R6: Everybody can remove the contents of /tmp/.X11-unix

1996-01-02 Thread Peter Tobias
anged from rwxrwxrwx to a more restrictive mode (maybe with the t bit). BTW: I'm using the following packages (a.out): xbase3.1.2-4 xstd 3.1.2-3 xlib 3.1.2-2 xs3 3.1.2-1 Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fach

Re: 1.2 modem devices

1996-06-18 Thread Peter Tobias
Bill Mitchell wrote: > On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Peter Tobias wrote: > > >IMHO we should change our comm packages for Debian 1.2 to use > >/dev/ttyS* instead of /dev/cua*: > > I'm hardly expert in standard practices in this area, but I'm > under the impression t

Re: Bug#3318: traceroute doesn't work with 1.2.13

1996-06-18 Thread Peter Tobias
1.3 or 2.0 kernels (which support IP_HDRINCL). Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#3325: usr/include/bsd/signal.h:7: No include path in which to find signal.h

1996-06-19 Thread Peter Tobias
* [test] Error 1 If you want to use BSD signals you should use "#include " and compile the program with "-I/usr/include/bsd". Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachber

Re: 1.2 modem devices

1996-06-19 Thread Peter Tobias
We need the consistency in the serial post lock > names. There should be no problem if all programs use the ttyS* devices and the /var/lock directory. Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTE

Bug#4126: ssh & gpm

1996-08-13 Thread Peter Tobias
Package: ssh Version: 1.2.13-1 If I type "ssh -C hostname" and use gpm to paste more than 4 lines text at a time ssh freezes. Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrot

Bug#4149: etc/resolv.conf gets bad configuration

1996-08-15 Thread Peter Tobias
gt; rather than the sliding window it had before 4.9.2. This will make the > default search list shorter, so folks who are saying "domain a.b.c" > and relying on the implicit "search a.b.c b.c c" will miss "b.c" and > "c". So what yo

Bug#4170: vlock can make the system unusable

1996-08-15 Thread Peter Tobias
ldn't accept keyboard input while it sleeps. Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#4169: pixmap dies

1996-08-15 Thread Peter Tobias
>(A+/&SE=FF$1?`])Y,($M<7B>$F"P+08"&E9U`BQ&F](7;KA>4) M0"W&6+_CZ#N71%*(P!D=B/^D$\1_E6Q( M2^#GBW0`P[#&QZ<+3;31=T9)MVL:AE<>,_C,WG-..D_)='Y0G9O0C.?.;)V? M4^,QTM1%$F$`$9^WWA);`:-:-"J'A708TE;/4()O;1,/GOODJP7(8W_^6O\. CE'9R`J#G_T

Re: dpkg 1.3.8: dpkg-buildpackage -sa works and is recommended

1996-08-25 Thread Peter Tobias
The size of the sources of the first net package were ~2MB ... > The new source packaging scheme will require you to put all of these > sub-packages together, and turn the whole thing into a normal package. No problem. The archive with the original sources would be my own

new maintainer for wu-ftpd wanted

1996-08-30 Thread Peter Tobias
Hi, I'm searching for a new maintainer for the wu-ftpd package. You should be able to program in perl (addftpuser is written in perl). Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbe

Re: Bug#4358: smartlist

1996-09-01 Thread Peter Tobias
error message for the unknown option(s). Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#4457: popclient conflicts with netstd

1996-09-10 Thread Peter Tobias
eds to be in netstd; if we take it out, I can > trivially upload another version that Replaces: netstd. I'll remove it from the netstd package. There is one open bug report against the popclient in netstd. I'll reassign it to the popclient package to make sure

Bug#4465: security hole in netdiag package

1996-09-10 Thread Peter Tobias
Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Someone working on a Penguin package?

1996-09-18 Thread Peter Tobias
engiun.html > (Note that I haven't tried this one yet.) The page has been moved. The new URL is http://www.eden.com/~fsg/penguin.html Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektro

Re: Bug#4575: World writable file

1996-09-25 Thread Peter Tobias
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 Tobias