default file perms

1997-05-28 Thread Tim Sailer
I have a client that just got carried away (as root of course) with a chmod -R in the wrong dir. I really miss the chkperms stuff deom $CO at times like this... so, I'm going to write one in perl. Since each package has a .list file already, would it be a big deal to have each developer to add a de

Re: default file perms

1997-05-28 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Vincent Renardias, you wrote: > > > On Wed, 28 May 1997, Tim Sailer wrote: > > > I have a client that just got carried away (as root of course) with a > > chmod -R in the wrong dir. I really miss the chkperms stuff deom $CO > > at times like

Re: FreeQt ?

1997-06-01 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Raul Miller, you wrote: > > I agree that configuration is lousy -- who ever thought that hard-coding > interrupts, dma and io ports at compile time was a good idea? Well, although you can't pass hw param at module load time, you *can* pass params via LILO, so you don't have t

Re: 1.3 installation report

1997-06-04 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Andreas Jellinghaus, you wrote: > > On Jun 3, Jim Pick wrote > > This flaw needs to be publicized a bit more. I'm sure I would have > > figured out the problem via the bug system eventually - but I shouldn't > > have to do that. > > > > Is there a document where "Errata" ca

1.3 release

1997-06-04 Thread Tim Sailer
The mirror on llug.sep.bnl.gov is almost caught up to master. However, master is not accepting ftp connections at this time... :( Happy release! :) Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.buoy.com/~tps "Very Pete Townshendish." "Who?" "Exactly." --

Re: problem with /proc info

1997-06-09 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Michael Meskes, you wrote: > > Could anyone explain this to me? > > cat /proc/meminfo > total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: > Mem: 96813056 95010816 1802240 122679296 11886592 37617664 > Swap: 65798144 229376 65568768 > MemTotal: 94544 kB

Re: Debian ncurses policy ?

1997-06-09 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Andreas Jellinghaus, you wrote: > > On Jun 6, Vincent Renardias wrote > > > > What's the current Debian policy w.r.t. curses? > > > > I have 6 packages (most with outstanding bugs) that I can't upload > > anymore because I don't have any machine around with libc5, and we don

Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?

1997-06-14 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Rob Browning, you wrote: > > Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Not that anyone necessarily has the time, but would it be worthwhile to > > create some documents listing categories of packages, comparing and > > contrasting the competing packages? > > Right.

Re: Policy wrt Important (was Re: dc and bc in Important?)

1997-06-28 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Bill Mitchell, you wrote: > > > > On 25 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote: > > > By the current definition of Important: > >[...] > >sendmail > > * dpkg-dev should not be there since no experienced user of another > >Unix would expect it > > * lilo should not be there

Re: Vision of new installation method using webserver

1997-06-30 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Christoph Lameter, you wrote: > > Since we were talking about including a web-server in the base system here > some thoughts. > > I often maintain headless servers. I always have to attach a screen for > the initial install or if something is seriously wrong with the machine.

Re: Removal of debian usenet gateway

1997-12-10 Thread Tim Sailer
Christoph Lameter wrote: > > Just ask and the gateway will be gone. I did this because I thought this > would be of benefit to the project. If you want to make Debian smaller and > make it difficult for people to access information about the project then > that is your problem. > > The gateway wa

Re: Intent to split mysql package

1997-12-23 Thread Tim Sailer
Scott Hanson wrote: > mysql-server > mysql-client (including libmysqlclient.so) > mysql-dev (header files and libraries) > mysql-bench > mysql-doc > > (The upstream source also includes perl libraries, but I'd rather > package these from CPAN.) Good! > This will allow one to do client-only or

Re: Minivend

1997-12-25 Thread Tim Sailer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Minivend is a GPL-ed online ordering application. It's worth looking at > (and I'm sure one of you will want to package it). See: > > http://www.minivend.com/minivend/ How much does it cost? PerlShop is AdverwareTM. The only requirement to use PerlShop is to

Re: Minivend

1997-12-25 Thread Tim Sailer
Kai Henningsen wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Sailer) wrote on 24.12.97 in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Minivend is a GPL-ed online ordering application. It's worth looking at > *** > &g

Re: Minivend

1997-12-25 Thread Tim Sailer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Huh? Is PerlShop a separate product, or a component of MiniVend? It's a separate product: http://www.arpanet.com/PerlShop/PerlShop.html > How far into the egg-nog were you when you wrote that message? Obviously, not far enough. It made just enough sense not to soun

per5.004

1997-12-26 Thread Tim Sailer
Has anyone mad a perl 5.004 package for a bo system? I need to upgrade a box running mysql to the latest DBI version, but it requires perl5.004, and I can't chance taking the box to hamm at this point. If no one has it, I'll just grab the source from hamm and try the build myself. Tim -- (work)

Re: Webmin .. ?

1998-01-06 Thread Tim Sailer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hello, > I ran across something very cool the other day -- Webmin > (http://www.webmin.com/webmin/). It's a web-based system management > tool, which is capable of doing things like cron jobs and DNS administration. > The developer has a version for Debian, and

Re: time stamps tomorrow?

1998-01-09 Thread Tim Sailer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Some files at llug.sep.bnl.gov/pub/debian/Incoming are stamped on 10 January > 1998. As I write, nowhere on Earth is it now 10 January. Linux llug 2.0.33 #1 Sun Dec 28 12:14:12 EST 1997 i586 unknown

Re: New official mirrors

1998-01-10 Thread Tim Sailer
James A.Treacy wrote: > > Debian has it's newest official mirror. This one is in Korea. We now > have a mirror on the mainland of Asia (yeah, I know that > Japan in in Asia too). South America and Africa are > being difficult. It'll be really be nice when we get > our first official mirror in spac

Re: libc5 to libc6 auto-upgrade script

1998-01-10 Thread Tim Sailer
Igor Grobman wrote: > > > This version should be close to good enough. The major change since the last > one that was posted is the ability to upgrade from files in the current dir > instead of a local mirror requirement. llug.sep.bnl.gov is a public nfs mount for debian. You can point the s

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-20 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Christoph, you wrote: > > > > > *** *** > > *** Release of Bo is HOLDING for CRITICAL BUGS!*** > > *** *** > > *** There is

ssltelnet

1997-05-21 Thread Tim Sailer
Can someone verify that this is a problem? I installed ssleay and ssltelnet, and when ssltelnet ripped through the install, it never paused for me to enter the info for the certificate.. This is what it looked like: Generating a 512 bit private key + ..+ wr

Re: --> Debian Bug #10000

1997-05-21 Thread Tim Sailer
In your email to me, Jim Pick, you wrote: > > --==_Exmh_1577184704P > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii > > > > > > In case you're interessed, I just got the acknowledgement of bug report > > #1 (which happen to be a documentation buglet in package qt-doc). > > *cracks open a virt

Missing xemacs

1997-05-23 Thread Tim Sailer
Since I didn't get an answer on -private, I'll do this the public way. Xemacs seems to be missing from bo. It's in rex and hamm. I con- sider a missing major package a bug unless there was a reason it was pulled. Brian? Anyone? Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http:/

Sigh...

2000-03-13 Thread Tim Sailer
I'm trying to bring up another Mailman server, with Roxen as the web server. This is freshly built today from potato. When I try to connect to the mailman admindb interface, I get "Error decoding authorization cookie." on the login screen, and every time I try to do any action, it throws me back to

100Mb/Full Duplex

2000-03-22 Thread Tim Sailer
Hi folks. I'm having some trouble, actually with a Cisco 6509 switch, but getting it to talk to 20 VALinux machines. My story: I have a rack of 20 machines needing to talk to a Pix firewall with gigbit interfaces on it. To do this, we set up a test rig using an Alteon switch with 1 gigabit interf

Re: ssl browsers

1998-06-12 Thread Tim Sailer
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 08:47:37PM +0300, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > On Thu, Jun 11, 1998 at 03:37:11PM +0100, Luis Francisco Gonzalez wrote: > > I wanted to know what ssl-enabled browsers we have in debian now. Also > > does anybody know if ftps:// is a valid URL for ssl-enabled ftp? > > forti

Re: ssl browsers

1998-06-13 Thread Tim Sailer
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 08:21:34PM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > Tim> Does anyone know of a SSL-enabled pop3 server? > > No, but you can run fetchmail within ssh 'tunnel'. Yeah, but I need to support netscape mail under Lose95... Tim -- (work) [EMAIL PROTECTED] / (home) [EMAIL PROTE

Re: ssl browsers

1998-06-13 Thread Tim Sailer
On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 09:53:24PM -0400, Elie Rosenblum wrote: > And thus spake Tim Sailer, on Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 08:58:25PM -0400: > > On Fri, Jun 12, 1998 at 08:21:34PM -0400, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: > > > > > > Tim> Does anyone know of a SSL-enabled pop3 se