Re: debian-exim mailing list?

2003-05-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
lioth. Most prominent the fact, that it is not visible on the mailinglist page. Cannot talk about the QOS. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257

Re: /etc/hostname

2003-05-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
.de > I've always thougth that /etc/hostname should contain short hostname. > But e.g. etherconf package puts FQDN name there ... Using the FQDN has advantages: the lookup will be more reliable finding the right entry (e.g. "www") and it has disadvantages: it may cvo

Re: PAM messages on chrooted console

2003-05-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
nd syslog in the inner jail (by using a named pipe). Both has advantages and disadvantages. For one, it might be a security problem to allow chrooted process to talk to an outside program, on the other hand it simplyfies log management. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. )

Re: /etc/hostname

2003-05-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
the network is offline since the loopback is always > available. Well, i think if an application want to talk to itself it should use localhost anyway. I do not know of any applications which talk to itself via hostname. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
s case if you build all the packages your package depends on, like the build is doing, because in that case apt wopuld habe been new abi, too. greetings bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-16 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
k testing :) Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: Fun with python-apt

2003-06-17 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
match on build time, for backporting purpose. One good thing would be a static detection of lib incompatibilities in the rules file. How about dh_shlibdeps, is it detecting this (and failing?). Hmm.. actually I think this was not the problem in the current example. Greetings Bernd -- (OO)

Re: no freshness dating inside Packages.gz

2003-06-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
other infos can be seen on the package tracking system: http://packages.qa.debian.org/a/adns.html This also includes the change notification mails. For me, this is good enough, but I could understand when people want to have this offline available. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: gcc 3.3 - what problems should I expect?

2003-06-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
had trouble with i2c and lm-sensors, though. 2.4.21 contains some fixes for linkage errors, which are created due to extern _inline_ declarations. You just need to remove the extern modifier and it will work for 2.4.20. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL

not modified modifications

2003-06-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
.. now i am waiting on inittex to finish *feels even more bothered* Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cry

Re: versions of -dev packages

2003-06-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
resent. Attached an ugly quick hack to fix that. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is ou

Re: Update re: read-only root filesystem

2003-06-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
otes) "/run/dev" for "changing devices" ? you do not need those, pipes can exiat on r/o filesystems without a problem. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
pages where mozilla/opera/konquerror fails. I would hate to reboot, to just open that page. But hopefully sometimes the mozilla bug gets fixed, and then i will be libc5 free :) Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pa

package descriptions dummy/transitional

2003-06-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
"you can remove it safely after upgrade (if no others depend on it)" packages? Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RI

Re: Proposal: removing libc5, altgcc and all their old-days dependencies

2003-06-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
.7x navigator is much faster on my 128mb system than anything else, and it still displays some pages which mozilla does not. in my case this are pages with cross frame scripting of java applets and some refreshing pages. But thanks anyway :) Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: inews path question

2003-06-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
/sendmail. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: How to Avoid GPL Issue

2003-06-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
rs and modules are allowed to be binary only. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: 469 packages still using dh_undocumented, check if one is yours

2003-07-04 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
much work wasted. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: eicar.com installer in Debian, and pre-upload interface to ftpmaster

2003-07-04 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
stepping on ppls feet. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: 469 packages still using dh_undocumented, check if one is yours

2003-07-04 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
rk. Well, I dont see the point in mass filing bugs for lintian warnings/errors. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (O___

Re: eicar.com installer in Debian, and pre-upload interface to ftpmaster

2003-07-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
vendor. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: eicar.com installer in Debian, and pre-upload interface to ftpmaster

2003-07-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
sters and this > many hours in a day. Personally I would prefer not to reviewe the packages at all. We have a well established and accepted bug and itp process for that. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.

Re: 469 packages still using dh_undocumented, check if one is yours

2003-07-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:43:56PM +0200, Goswin Brederlow wrote: > Could the dh_undocumented programm allways fail with an error "Don't > use me" as the next step? That way all new uploads will be forced to > care. this will still create fail to build bugs for no good

Re: default MTA for sarge

2003-07-13 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
query: what about cron mails? I realy think /usr/sbin/sendmail should a mta which is able to deliver mails, for the sake of administrative mails. This includes reportbug, cron, some MUAs, and even debconf or dpkg-listchanges. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL

Re: proposal: per-user temporary directories on by default?

2003-07-26 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
e partition. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: logging out a ssh-user

2003-07-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sun, Jul 27, 2003 at 10:30:07AM +0200, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Wrong, actually. ssh forks twice before spawning a shell (I don't know > why); I think it is related to the priveledge separation code. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: debconf 2005 in Vienna, Austria

2003-07-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
aling that I would even consider also attendig > LinuxTag :-) Keep in mind, this is 730km and will take up to 8-12h Wien is not exactly close to western europe. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/

Re: May packages rm -rf subdirectories of /etc/ ?

2003-07-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
files (*~, *.old) or packaging related stuff (*.dpkg-new) which might need removing, before the dir can be emoved. Anyway, if you ust want to mae sure that the empty dir is removed, you can do rmdir Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
sensus about > + doing that has been reached. > + Do we want to make an sgui games exception here? Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
t; Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 03:58:13PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > Hmm. Are you willing then to help modify each game to allow > this to happen? Some changes are quite extensive. Hmm.. I am sure the maintainers of the affected packages will ask for help. Greetings Bernd --

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-01 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:19:46PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > > Umm... you invent a scorewriter for removing the sgui games bit? And then > > you add a sgid scoresetter? I dont think this makes mch sence. > > You need to learn some more about securit

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-02 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
and determines it is not. This is trivial, and should be documented even in the man page. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE

Re: setgid crontab

2003-08-02 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
the file "user1" is owned by "user1" (or root) any nobody else. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (

Re: setgid crontab

2003-08-02 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 03:53:00PM -0500, Steve Greenland wrote: > To ship the setgid program, I need to have the group 'cron' on the > build system. i think this is covered by fakeroot. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,

Re: setuid/setgid binaries contained in the Debian repository.

2003-08-02 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
rs. However I can understand admins who want to maintain a friendly user environemnt, and we should serve them by allowing "chmod g-s /usr/games/*". BTW: anband is playable without sgid, but since I do not manage to get past level 1 i am nor sure what kind of implications this has :)

Re: setgid crontab

2003-08-04 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 08:10:47AM +0200, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > Which is why you mount NFS shares with the intr flag set so that you > can at least kill it and restart it. Which is broken on most Linux Kernels. So is soft. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PRO

Re: Should MUA only Recommend mail-transfer-agent?

2003-08-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
; an agreement is reached. There are enough SMTP/POP3 MUAs which do not need any MTA infrastructure on the local host, whatsoever. Mutt can fetch by pop-3, but I think it has no smtp support build in, or? Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de

Re: Bug#204422: ITP: debix -- Live filesystem creation tool

2003-08-08 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
at mindi/mondo, too. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: Debian

2003-08-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
sure to check out www.debian.org and especially: http://www.debian.org/devel/join/ http://www.debian,org/devel/ and http://www.debian.org/doc/maint-guide/ Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o

Re: tmda: Challenge-response is fundamentally broken

2003-08-27 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
gt; difference is important, I think. Every MTA is sending bounces to mails with forged headers. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RI

Re: Accepted kaffe 1:1.1.1-1 (i386 source)

2003-08-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
andling. it wont help you, if it says "print a helpful error message". If you realy care that much, look up the patch. Gruss Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAI

Re: DebToo: Debian, Gentoo-style

2003-08-29 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
r a while. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: /var/run and scripts

2003-09-03 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
th breaks of course dpkg runs. But in normal, non system maintenance mode, this works fine. I would like to preserve that, especially /tmp and /var/tmp i would not like to see executable. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.

Re: Horrific new levels of changelog abuse

2003-09-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
this is not hard to understand. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynj

Re: Virus emails

2003-09-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In case of spam and virus checking you have to read at least the headers, and most likely a lot of the body (till you know the attachement type) Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plus

Re: Rotation of /var/log/mail.log

2003-09-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
as some "missingok,notifempty" statements, because it is quite unlikely that all syslog files should be rotate in the same manner and with the same permissions. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/

Re: Rotation of /var/log/mail.log

2003-09-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
les daily, edit # this script. An easy way is to add them manually # or to add -a to syslogd-listfiles and add some grep # stuff. and fails... Greetings bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.

Re: The size of debian packages

2003-09-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
b,share}/* | sort -n". Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE5-RIPE (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl bhgynjf jvyy unir cevinpl!

Re: correct directorys for www.ltsp.org (for swap)

2003-09-28 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
that it is not the nices solution, but I dont see a reason for not fixing security problems. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plush* 2048/93600EFD [EMAIL PROTECTED] +497257930613 BE

Re: Where are we now? (Was: Bits from the RM)

2003-10-03 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
; For me, vi was worth learning; dselect most definitely was not. Personally I dont think the keystrokes in itself are the problem. Only the "Q" which needs to be used to quit without mangling all your manually made selections is important to know. Greetins Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMA

Re: Annoyances of aptitude

2003-10-03 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
some versions it does not. Have you removed that feature or do I have to turn it on? I used to mark all packages I do not care with that feature. Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. ) [EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://home.pages.de/~eckes/ o--o *plu

Re: Annoyances of aptitude

2003-10-03 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Oct 03, 2003 at 06:29:19PM -0400, Daniel Burrows wrote: > I think this has to do with the default display format not always being > upgraded. It should be "%c%a%M %p #%v%V". Thanks, indeed. It helped to delete ~root/.aptitude. Didnt know it stores something, there.

Re: cpufrequtils init script in rcS.d

2005-07-15 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
e minute does not consume measurable amount of power. So there is still ne real reason mentioned why a few seconds matter here. i could think of a few daemons which do a benchmark loop on startup, howeer those are broken by design on modern hardware anyway. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: cpufrequtils init script in rcS.d

2005-07-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
urse, however there is a big difference between possibility to optimize and the Must-have claim we had before. After all, we just want to understand why it is so important. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Usability: Technical details in package descriptions?

2005-07-20 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
quality. We could learn that from BSD or commercial distributions (I think even Fedora Core?). Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mass-filing bugs based on piuparts?

2005-07-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
audits a particular aspect of a larger system is well suited to give trend analysis. Hopefully we find common errors which can be included in lintian or detected otherwise. I wonder if you already can report on common problems? Thans for your work Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Please participate in popularity-contest

2005-07-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
look up the reports by it? Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: please fix your RC bugs

2005-07-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
e. Also, always contact the maintainer first, and use a delayed > upload queue. You did neither of these when NMUing cheesetracker. Besides I find those contant ABI and toolchain changes pretty annoying, this is really killing a lot of productive work. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: please fix your RC bugs

2005-07-31 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
uld not stress this too much. But maybe that comment needs to go in GCC direction. Personally I would say to wait for those transitions until the required source changes have reached upstream. And especially I dont see the need for urgend calls to fix those trivial bugs. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSC

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-08-02 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 07:45:12PM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > What's the maintenance status of the net-tools package? It is maintained. Patches are welcome. http://packages.qa.debian.org/n/net-tools.html Which patch are you talking about? Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -

Re: RFC: allow new upstream into stable when it's the only way to fix security issues.

2005-08-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I am a Debian developer. I am not interested in solutions which are > developed outside of Debian. Correct: We still have no solution in Debian, not even a DSA warning the user. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-08-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Yes, it's about that bug. I have attached it to the bug. Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-08-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
change (however I think everybody who is arsing netstat output is insane) Bernd PS: please use unified diffs -u, better readable. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-08-05 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Didn't I (also) send you a much later version? Hmm.. I cant find that, but yes I thin u did. Can you dig that up? Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mass bug filing on packages that are blocking use of cdebconf

2005-08-07 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
se the package depends from a package > that just depends from debconf? Well, I am not sure it is a good idea to resolv the dependencies that way. Each package should declare all its dependencies directly. (And only its own) Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-08-11 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Thu, Aug 11, 2005 at 09:23:12AM +0200, Olaf van der Spek wrote: > Just one more question: what happened to my original emails? I read them. Most likely I saved the wrong one for further processing. Thats why it is a good idea to copy the bug report. Sorry for your double work. Gruss Be

Re: runlevels remodeled

2005-08-13 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > If by "emergency mode" you mean init=/bin/sh, then doing: >exec /sbin/init > will continue the boot, I'm pretty sure. Emergency mode is specifying -b or "emergency" at the kernel boot prompt. Gruss Ber

Re: README - confusing, irrelevant, redundant, useless

2005-08-14 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > their files. Or do you suggest to tag all files in Debian with > such an information? :-) Open a man page. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: packages still setting /usr/doc link

2005-08-14 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
ebian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=322749 I btw agree that we should fix policy, too. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using buildds only

2005-08-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
BTS, debian-devel etc.) I think it is much better for a clean rebuild of all packages on all architectures. Then we dont have to discuss that big FTBFS difference between i386 and the rest. Any maybe i386 fails the releaseable criteria, too? :) Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: vancouver revisited

2005-08-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > The number of buildds required to keep up with the > volume of uploaded packages must not be greater than two. > There must be that many buildds, in addition there must also be a redundant > buildd. This means 2 or 3? Greeti

Re: making developer location from ldap public?

2005-08-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Why not simply hide it behind the password screen? the developer databasequery interface and details is hidden behind a password, already? Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: a desperate request for licence metadata

2005-09-06 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Computer programs are exempted from that requirement. The work needs to have some kind of creative art. Trivial programs are also not protected in a lot countries. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-09-09 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Eh, bump, please? http://net-tools.berlios.de Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: SELinux

2005-09-21 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
p://www.acsac.org/2004/workshop/David-Safford.pdf However looks like lomac is kind of postponed, since nobody is funding LSM work. However it is part of FreeBSD current. http://opensource.sparta.com/lomac/ Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I propose to modify Debian in this way. why not request a fixed port for ypbind? Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: newbee network question

2005-09-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
ard users? The system config tools in RH are not from KDE but from RH. I am not sure if there are gui tools in debian, never tried. Just use /etc/network/interfaces. > i tried the ADSL/PPPOE manager, but even he can see my cards, he can't > access the cards either. Error message? Gruss

Re: Conflicting assignment of priviledged ports on boot

2005-09-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
ominence and its place in the init sequence. Well, my idea is to fix only the rpc servers which cause trouble (ie. started early). and if this is only ypbind it needs to be modified to use a fixed port and register itself with pmap_set. Some rpc servers allow to be bound to a fixed port anyway.

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-09-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
for .localdmain at all. Gruss Bernd y -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Everyone go test aptitude 0.3.4!

2005-10-02 Thread Bernd Schubert
weeks ago and didn't get the slightest response. Thanks, Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Everyone go test aptitude 0.3.4!

2005-10-03 Thread Bernd Schubert
ems/configurations are affected as well. However, I really didn't expect that my report seems to be ignored. Regards, Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-06 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
t understand why this issue is a problem since we > simply add an alias to localhost. The problem is that it is the _first_ alias. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-06 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
gt; is false. It also assumes that the system has just one IP address with > one FQDN which is also false. Those asumptions are not false, they are what they are: asumptions. If you dont want to configure your system that way, just dont use it. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: localhost.localdomain

2005-10-07 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 02:04:44PM +0200, Gabor Gombas wrote: > That is what I say: every Debian package that uses "hostname -f" is > bogus, because it relies on a certain system configuration. Umm, I guess all debian packages relies on certain configurations. Gruss Bernd --

Re: Please Help me to install and configure Debian Correctly

2005-10-13 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
by Debian. Greetings Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sid is/was crazy

2005-10-18 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
your kernel had an hardware IO error. >Additional sense: Scsi parity error this could be a failing device electronics, broken wiring, thermal or power problems - less likely is a failing drive but also possible. Backup your data as long as you can. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: net-tools maintenance status

2005-10-24 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
happened. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=222324 there was no consensus on the patch yet, if i see that correctly. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Re: portrserve, gidreserve, was Re: Debian Weekly News - October 25th]

2005-10-25 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
to reserve gid 101 to allow the >> conversion from users=100 to users=101, it gets taken up by the >> next package that needs a low, but assigned-at-install-time, >> gid. just change it after install? Not sure if we can and want to deal with all possible configuations out ther

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian based GNU/Solaris: pilot program]

2005-11-02 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
which > brings many non-Debian-related issues into play. There is also hurd or freebsd kernel ports for debian, so those projects are similiar. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

d-i: partitioned md devices? allowed but not supported?

2005-11-03 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
than one (the first?) raid error by the kernel? Greetings Bernd -- (OO) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- ( .. )[EMAIL PROTECTED],linux.de,debian.org} http://www.eckes.org/ o--o 1024D/E383CD7E [EMAIL PROTECTED] v:+497211603874 f:+49721151516129 (OO) When cryptography is outlawed, bayl

Re: d-i: partitioned md devices? allowed but not supported?

2005-11-03 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
rks just like one Well, with auto start i mean the fact that the kernel finds the devices and starts them. I suspect it is doing that because there is a bootflag on the partition. I am not sure if the kernel can du that for all devices it auto detected (i havd md0 on sda1/sdb1 and md1 on sda2/sdb2

Re: d-i: partitioned md devices? allowed but not supported?

2005-11-04 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
will check another one. Thanks for your reply. Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Determining a .deb's intended Debian Version

2005-11-10 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
s and the checksum of the archive file in: http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/dists/Debian3.1r0/main/binary-i386/Packages Gruss Bernd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome-swallow_1.2-2_source.changes REJECTED

2005-11-10 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > Why is this the case ? I'm running with experimental GNOME packages; if > I upload a binary package depending on them, it will be uninstallable on > unstable systems. How can you test your packages if you dont build them?

Bug#462879: ITP: python-cssutils -- CSS Cascading Style Sheets parser and builder

2008-01-27 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * Package name: python-cssutils Version : 0.9.5a2 Upstream Author : Christof Hoeke * URL : http://cthedot.de/cssutils/ * License : LGPL Programming Lang: Python Description

Re: List of packages shipping shell scripts with bashisms + MBF proposal

2008-01-31 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
you should not list this as a problem. If a script is not a sh script, there's no reason to check for bashisms imho, especially if you have scripts for psh, ksh, csh or other weird shells. Best regards, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <ht

Intend to hijack rrdtool

2008-02-04 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
nd heavily overworked package in about two weeks as the very soft freeze for Lenny will be in the early march, so there's at least some time left for intensive testing. Best regards, -- Bernd Zeimetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bzed.de/> -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: changing the default syslog daemon for lenny?

2008-02-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
> rsyslog could of > course read configs from syslog.d and rsyslog.d, and admins could > install those under /etc/rsyslog.d/ or edit /etc/rsyslog.conf to make > use of those additional features. This would also be a way to solve #311812. Cheers, Bernd -- Bernd Zeimetz <[

Re: Intend to hijack rrdtool

2008-02-05 Thread Bernd Zeimetz
Bernd Zeimetz wrote: > [CCing [EMAIL PROTECTED] as he is listed as Uploader] > > Hi, > > as rrdtool is a vital part of a lot of system monitoring solutions and > should not go into Lenny in its current unmaintained state, I intend to > hijack it. After a lot of positiv reac

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