modprobe snd-cs46xx error ALSA 1.0.17 with kernel 2.6.26-1-686

2008-08-29 Thread Bernd Kloss
Lenny alsa-driver-1.0.17 Kernel 2.6.26-1-686 Cirrus Logic cs46xx Hello for the previous kernel 2.6.25-2-686 I could compile the audiodrivers without problems. After kernel-update 2.6.26-1-686 I repeated the same procedure without errors except the last step modprobe snd-cs46xx Following err

Re: fixing the time?

2008-08-29 Thread Jos Collin
ntpdate works fine in my PC. - Jos Collin On Sat, Aug 30, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Michael Mohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Am 30.08.2008 um 01:40 schrieb Zach Uram: > > My Debian box keeps showing the wrong time, I reconfigured the tzdata >> package >> and selected America and New York and it still

Re: aptitude --purge

2008-08-29 Thread jidanni
> "EVL" == Eugene V Lyubimkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: EVL> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I find no way in aptitude to >> # aptitude install telnet-ssl >> Reading package lists... Done <- Get rid of these messages, and >> The following NEW packages will be installed: >> telnet-ssl >> The fol

Can't Detach from a startup script

2008-08-29 Thread Kent West
I'm trying to run Maple12 from my Debian box. I've hacked a startup script together that looks like this: == #! /bin/sh # Maple 12 # I hacked this script from a copy of the "lisa" start-up script; no guarantees that it works properly. # Kent West, 14 June 2007 # PATH=/sbin:/bin:

security risk of having a long list of services in inetd

2008-08-29 Thread Paul Dufresne
> From: Paul Dufresne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> For myself, rkhunter give warning about inetd. >> Looking to /etc/services, I found that Debian seems to like to have a >> very big file with all known services rather than just add the >> services needed. I don't even knows if other distributions does j

Re: iPod Nano

2008-08-29 Thread Jos Collin
Hi Johannes, I have'nt tried this in mac as I don't have a mac machine. But gtkpod is still showing 'segmentation fault' in my Desktop (Debian-Etch, amd 64). I don't know why it is like that. Anyway it works in my laptop (Debian-Lenny, Intel). When I brought my iPod Nano, I was able to copy some m

Re: hidden processes?

2008-08-29 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
From: Paul Dufresne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For myself, rkhunter give warning about inetd. > Looking to /etc/services, I found that Debian seems to like to have a > very big file with all known services rather than just add the > services needed. I don't even knows if other distributions does just >

Re: hidden processes?

2008-08-29 Thread Paul Dufresne
2008/8/29 Zach Uram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I used the unhide package and found this result, should I be worried? > How can I stop these hidden processes? I guess if I was you I would install rkhunter and chkrootkit. Then launch chkrootkit, and 'rkhunter --check' to try to find if a rootkit is insta

re: LiloCan't Boot vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64

2008-08-29 Thread Thomas H. George
Replying from Mutt has failed - damn nuisance - so I have patched together the messages and reposted from iceape. The new problem is not Mutt but something related to Postfix. I'll try to track it down tomorrow. Tom On 08/29/2008 02:03 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: > dist-upgrade installed vmli

Re: hidden processes?

2008-08-29 Thread Paul Dufresne
It won't make you feel better, but using Lenny unhide version 20080519-2 I get zero hidden process (tested proc, sys and brute). Nor any hidden tcp or udp connections with unhide-tcp. 2008/8/29 Zach Uram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I used the unhide package and found this result, should I be worried? >

Re: fixing the time?

2008-08-29 Thread Michael Mohn
Am 30.08.2008 um 01:40 schrieb Zach Uram: My Debian box keeps showing the wrong time, I reconfigured the tzdata package and selected America and New York and it still shows the time as 2 hour behind the real time. I just did it now: bach# date Fri Aug 29 17:39:33 EDT 2008 bach# dpkg-reconf

Re: hidden processes?

2008-08-29 Thread Robin
2008/8/30 Zach Uram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I used the unhide package and found this result, should I be worried? > How can I stop these hidden processes? > > bach:~# unhide proc > Unhide 20080519 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > [*]Searching for Hidden processes through /proc scanning > > bach:~# unhide s

fixing the time?

2008-08-29 Thread Zach Uram
My Debian box keeps showing the wrong time, I reconfigured the tzdata package and selected America and New York and it still shows the time as 2 hour behind the real time. I just did it now: bach# date Fri Aug 29 17:39:33 EDT 2008 bach# dpkg-reconfigure tzdata Current default timezone: 'America

Re: LiveCD's don't work

2008-08-29 Thread Paul Dufresne
That's probably https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.22/+bug/153702 (For Dell Inspiron 530, about SATA drive) Suggested *workaround* is to: 1. While turning on the computer press F2 at the splash screen to enter Setup (BIOS) 2. Select Integrated Peripherals 3. Go to 'SATA Mode

hidden processes?

2008-08-29 Thread Zach Uram
I used the unhide package and found this result, should I be worried? How can I stop these hidden processes? bach:~# unhide proc Unhide 20080519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [*]Searching for Hidden processes through /proc scanning bach:~# unhide sys Unhide 20080519 [EMAIL PROTECTED] [*]Searching for Hid

Re: Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Arithmetic Expansion > Arithmetic expansion allows the evaluation > of an arithmetic expression and the substitution > of the result. > > The format for arithmetic expansion is: > > $((expression)) > > The old format $[expression] is deprecated > and will be removed in upcomin

Re: Cron Not Working On Etch

2008-08-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 29 August 2008, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 08/29/2008 11:29 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I recently had a system drive crash on a Sarge system, so when I > > put in a new drive, I installed Etch (also figuring that will make > > upgrading to Lenny easier). Everything seems to have gone well, >

Re: LiveCD's don't work

2008-08-29 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Em Sex, 2008-08-29 às 12:20 -0600, Mike Fontenot escreveu: > Also, while running Vista, I > opened the CD that I had just burned, and verified that it had lots of > folders and files on it, not just a single iso file). This is ok. -- marcot Página: http://marcotmarcot.googlepages.com/ Blog: http

Re: problem with openssh-server

2008-08-29 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 04:57:24PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > On 2008-08-29 16:26, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Alex Samad wrote: > >> Before I file a bug report, has any one else been having any problem > >> with openssh-server 1:5.1p1-2 > >> > >> seems like where ever I have installed it I have

mail missing between exim and mutt

2008-08-29 Thread Mark Copper
Hi, I would like to request help understanding how some email went missing. exim's log shows the missing pieces going into maildir: 2008-08-26 18:23:08 1KY7sS-0003mR-Be => me R=local_us er T=maildir_home fetchmail should have retrieved the mail: poll myserver proto imap user "me"

Re: Lilo Can't Boot vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64

2008-08-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/29/2008 02:03 PM, Thomas H. George wrote: dist-upgrade installed vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64, ran mkinitrd and lilo which reported two warnings (mbr on different harddrive, assuming LBA32 addressing) but no fatal problems. Attempted boot to new kernel ended in kernel panic. I confess the

Re: Cron Not Working On Etch

2008-08-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/29/2008 11:29 AM, Hal Vaughan wrote: I recently had a system drive crash on a Sarge system, so when I put in a new drive, I installed Etch (also figuring that will make upgrading to Lenny easier). Everything seems to have gone well, except for one point: Cron is not behaving well. [...]

Re: Iceweasel Suddenly Killed

2008-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/29/08 03:22, Zaki Akhmad wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When does Iceweasel stop and disappear? If it disappeared when you installed mozilla-noscript, that should be expected. Restart iceweasel. If iceweasel won't start after the installation

Re: mail (local mail)

2008-08-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/29/08 14:08, Xavier J. B. L. wrote: Recently I drop exim4 packages (# apt-get remove exim4 exim4-base Why? exim4-config exim4-daemon-light) and so it removes "at" and "bsd-mailx". Now I haven't mail (because it drops me bsd-mailx). But I want having mail for simply: - read /var/mai

Re: Iceweasel Suddenly Killed

2008-08-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/29/2008 03:22 AM, Zaki Akhmad wrote: On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: When does Iceweasel stop and disappear? If it disappeared when you installed mozilla-noscript, that should be expected. Restart iceweasel. If iceweasel won't start after the installa

mail (local mail)

2008-08-29 Thread Xavier J. B. L.
Recently I drop exim4 packages (# apt-get remove exim4 exim4-base exim4-config exim4-daemon-light) and so it removes "at" and "bsd-mailx". Now I haven't mail (because it drops me bsd-mailx). But I want having mail for simply: - read /var/mail - when I login, shell says me "you have a mai

Re: iPod Nano

2008-08-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-08-29 04:41, Jos Collin wrote: > I have upgraded the distribution (lenny) once again and set the > 'FirewireGuid' for my iPod Nano. Now the gtkpod starts working. I'm glad it works for you now. I've just got my classic two days ago, and it also took more than one iteration till I typed eve

Re: Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-08-26 11:50, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/25/08 20:34, s. keeling wrote: >> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> On 08/24/08 11:32, Rick Pasotto wrote: Why pipe it to bc? Keep it in the shell: $ echo $[$[$(date -d 20090824 +%s) - $(date -d 20080724 +%s)] / 86400] 396 >>>

Lilo Can't Boot vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64

2008-08-29 Thread Thomas H. George
dist-upgrade installed vmlinuz-2.6.26-1-amd64, ran mkinitrd and lilo which reported two warnings (mbr on different harddrive, assuming LBA32 addressing) but no fatal problems. Attempted boot to new kernel ended in kernel panic. I confess the same was true of vmlinuz-2.6.25-2-amd64 so I save

Re: LiveCD's don't work

2008-08-29 Thread Mike Fontenot
I succeeded in burning the downloaded debian-live image to a CD, but it failed when I tried to boot from it on my new PC (Dell Inspiron 530). It showed "Live Debian" on the screen, and typed "Press F1 for help, or Enter to", and then paused at that point without finishing that sentence. Then it

Home directories: local(fast) x remote(secure, available)

2008-08-29 Thread Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe
Dear Srs, I have a bunch of machines (<20) and users (~15) working in a develoment facility. I like to keep home directories inside the server room - they're mounted via NFS. This give me short times for disaster recovery, since the desktop machines can be recovered with partimage, and all rel

Re: syslog and email

2008-08-29 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-08-29T00:53:10, Mag Gam wrote: > Thanks all for the responses. It seems I am going to the syslog-ng > way, however I am having trouble setting up the email alerts. > I have written a script to email me but I am not sure how to set this > up in syslog-ng Here is what I use: filter alert {

ia32-libs and vmware-server

2008-08-29 Thread kj
Hi guys, Running the vmware server client on Lenny-64bit comes up with an error (I'll put it at the bottom). The only suggestion I've found so far that solves this is to downgrade ia32-libs from 2.6 to 1.19. Unfortunately ia32-libs 2.6 is a dependency for ia32-libs-gtk 2.6, which in turn i

Cron Not Working On Etch

2008-08-29 Thread Hal Vaughan
I recently had a system drive crash on a Sarge system, so when I put in a new drive, I installed Etch (also figuring that will make upgrading to Lenny easier). Everything seems to have gone well, except for one point: Cron is not behaving well. After installing my packages and getting everythi

Re: Getting to runlevel 1

2008-08-29 Thread Bob McGowan
Shachar Or wrote: On Friday 29 August 2008 02:15, Shachar Or wrote: Hi. In order to rsync my root, I switch to single user mode. While I'm quite positive that it is good that I quit my desktop session before the rsync, I'm not sure what good it does to switch to single user mode. I switch to s

Re: Wireless drivers for MSI Wind U100

2008-08-29 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:38:59 -0700 Arthur Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:28:01 -0700 > > Arthur Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I recently bought an MSI Wind U100 notebook with Windows XP and > >> partitioned the hard drive in half so I c

Re: Re: Wireless drivers for MSI Wind U100

2008-08-29 Thread Arthur Barlow
Celejar wrote: On Thu, 28 Aug 2008 08:28:01 -0700 Arthur Barlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I recently bought an MSI Wind U100 notebook with Windows XP and partitioned the hard drive in half so I could also run GNU/Linux. The notebook uses a Realtek RT8101E chipset for it's WLAN. Does anyone

Re: Trac 0.11 and WebAdmin

2008-08-29 Thread Tobias Nissen
Jens Peter Secher wrote: > Disclaimer: I am a complete newbie wrt. Trac. > > Summary: Cannot get WebAdmin to work in Trac 0.11. [...] You have to have the TRAC_ADMIN permission, otherwise you won't see the "Admin" link. pgp7i8V9dqwsE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: problem with openssh-server

2008-08-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-08-29 16:26, Wayne Topa wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: >> Before I file a bug report, has any one else been having any problem >> with openssh-server 1:5.1p1-2 >> >> seems like where ever I have installed it I haven't been able to login >> afterwards. I just tracked down that it is not accepti

Re: problem with openssh-server

2008-08-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Alex Samad wrote: Before I file a bug report, has any one else been having any problem with openssh-server 1:5.1p1-2 seems like where ever I have installed it I haven't been able to login afterwards. I just tracked down that it is not accepting any ipv4 connections only ipv6. ssh 127.0.0.1 -l

Trac 0.11 and WebAdmin

2008-08-29 Thread Jens Peter Secher
Disclaimer: I am a complete newbie wrt. Trac. Summary: Cannot get WebAdmin to work in Trac 0.11. I have successfully installed trac_0.11-3 and set it up with apache2-mpm-prefork _2.2.9-7, so I can connect to https://localhost/trac and create new tickets nad view the svn source code in my test pro

Playing nonogram/griddle and puzzle archive

2008-08-29 Thread Martin
Is there some program for playing griddle puzzle on etch. I have found some programs: nonogram-0.8.3.3 and grid.tgz that compile but this programs don't let me play the puzzle - they solve it. All other that I found were shareware for windows (and refused to start under wine) or are for online play

Re: how to manually fix dependency problems?

2008-08-29 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Philip wrote: > I installed an external package. This is the dependency list for the > package:- > > dpkg-deb -I typo3-src-4.2_4.2.1-2_all.deb > > Depends: ttf-dejavu, libapache2-mod-php5 | libapache-mod-php5 | > php5-cgi, php5-cli, libjs-prototype (= 1.6.0) > > However only libjs-prototype 1.

how to manually fix dependency problems?

2008-08-29 Thread Philip
I installed an external package. This is the dependency list for the package:- dpkg-deb -I typo3-src-4.2_4.2.1-2_all.deb Depends: ttf-dejavu, libapache2-mod-php5 | libapache-mod-php5 | php5-cgi, php5-cli, libjs-prototype (= 1.6.0) However only libjs-prototype 1.6.0.2-4 is available, so I insta

Re: xen problem with hvm (Invalid mode)

2008-08-29 Thread abel
On Fri, 29 Aug 2008 09:52:22 -0300 "edu gargiulo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How should I disable acpi module and give a try without it? http://wiki.debian.org/KernelModuleBlacklisting signature.asc Description: PGP signature

["solved"] Re: LANG=fr_FR /usr/bin/nedit and accentuated characters

2008-08-29 Thread Nicolas BERCHER
OK, I found an acceptable solution: download NEdit from here http://www.nedit.org/ftp/v5_5/executables/ to get an well linked binary, install it into /usr/local/ ! (Sorry Debian packagers, but I really need to work with NEdit. ;-) ) N. OK, I found something "interesting": when it begins to be bu

xen problem with hvm (Invalid mode)

2008-08-29 Thread edu gargiulo
I'm still trying to run winxp on xen. This time, installed a fresh debian-amd64 stable version [1]. When I run xm create winxp.cfg [2], I got the message "Error: Invalid mode". I've attached xend.log [3] output, xm dmesg [4] and xm info [5]. Googling I've found some posts saying problems with asus

OT: scanner

2008-08-29 Thread Jose Rodriguez
Hi I'm about to buy a scanner, which will be used to scan A4 text documents scattered with the occasional picture here and there. I plan to convert them afterwards to either pdf or djvu (haven't decided yet) with good quality settings. This is, I should not be able to notice font blurring while re

Re: Getting to runlevel 1

2008-08-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-08-29 14:10, Nicolas BERCHER wrote: > I think you should just backup your / with rsync and its option > --exclude-from in order to ignore /proc, /sys, /mnt, /media, /tmp and so > on... ... or -- even more simple -- use the '-x' option to stay on root's file system. That doesn't exclude /tm

Re: LANG=fr_FR /usr/bin/nedit and accentuated characters

2008-08-29 Thread Nicolas BERCHER
OK, I found something "interesting": when it begins to be buggy, accentuated characters only fails when I open multiple files in tabs, on every tabs except the tab of the first file I opened via the command line... stupid rule... I know that NEdit is considered stable only when linked to specif

Re: rkhunter on Etch

2008-08-29 Thread Tim Edwards
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 2008-08-29 11:42, Tim Edwards wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 2008-08-28 10:00, Tim Edwards wrote: That's new to me. Were did you get this information? IIRC it's a unique feature of debian (and/or debian based systems) to get security fixes backported. As an

Re: Getting to runlevel 1

2008-08-29 Thread Nicolas BERCHER
I think you should just backup your / with rsync and its option --exclude-from in order to ignore /proc, /sys, /mnt, /media, /tmp and so on... Simply put items to ignore into a text : /proc /sys /tmp /mnt /media ... then call rsync: rsync --exclude-from=... Indeed, It is also possible to o

Re: rkhunter on Etch

2008-08-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-08-29 11:42, Tim Edwards wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> On 2008-08-28 10:00, Tim Edwards wrote: >> That's new to me. Were did you get this information? IIRC it's a unique >> feature of debian (and/or debian based systems) to get security fixes >> backported. As an example, see suse'

LANG=fr_FR /usr/bin/nedit and accentuated characters

2008-08-29 Thread Nicolas BERCHER
Hi, I use NEdit all day long to draft ma thesis (LaTeX), I work under lenny-sid/KDE (3.5.9) and I use bash under Konsole. When I write in french, I use to call NEdit this way: LANG=fr_FR /usr/bin/nedit & since my locale is LANG=fr_FR.UTF-8. It works good for a while (I mean I have all cha

Re: Running a script automatically on system boot?

2008-08-29 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Aug 29, 2008 at 06:21:43 -0400, Zach Uram wrote: > I installed the darktstat package in Debian lenny/sid and want to know > the canonical way to set it up so that every time there is a reboot of > my server it will run "/etc/init.d/darkstat start" automatically? http://www.debian-admin

Running a script automatically on system boot?

2008-08-29 Thread Zach Uram
Hello, I installed the darktstat package in Debian lenny/sid and want to know the canonical way to set it up so that every time there is a reboot of my server it will run "/etc/init.d/darkstat start" automatically? Please be very specific, I've never done this before. Running kernel 2.6.18 Regard

Re: rkhunter on Etch

2008-08-29 Thread Tim Edwards
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 2008-08-28 10:00, Tim Edwards wrote: The way Debian does it this is the same as virtually every other major Linux distro - Suse/OpenSuse, Redhat, Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu etc. That is they release a new distro version every X months, in Debian-speak these are call

Re: rkhunter on Etch

2008-08-29 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/8/29 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > A careful study of 'harden-doc' (install it > with aptitude) will probably lead to a more secure system than to solely > rely on one piece of software. Agreed. I'm planning to use some packages from the hardening suite. The problem with rkhunter

Re: rkhunter on Etch

2008-08-29 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/8/29 Tim Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Probably better to take the maintainer's advice as he knows more about it > than I do. Thanks for clearing this up; will do. > I was just saying that when I've been in this situation, whether on Redhat, > Debian or other distros I usually take the mo

Re: rkhunter on Etch

2008-08-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-08-28 10:00, Tim Edwards wrote: > The way Debian does it this is the same as virtually every other major > Linux distro - Suse/OpenSuse, Redhat, Fedora, Mandriva, Ubuntu etc. That > is they release a new distro version every X months, in Debian-speak > these are called 'stable' releases, an

Re: Iceweasel Suddenly Killed

2008-08-29 Thread Zaki Akhmad
On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 3:03 PM, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When does Iceweasel stop and disappear? If it disappeared when you installed > mozilla-noscript, that should be expected. Restart iceweasel. If iceweasel > won't start after the installation of mozilla-noscript, we might need

Re: Preseed files - is order important?

2008-08-29 Thread Chris Hiestand
As far as I know order does not matter. However, in the case that you're trying to overwrite a later value with a previous one, I'm not sure which takes precedence. Is that the question? On Aug 28, 2008, at 8:36 AM, Tim Edwards wrote: Does anyone know whether or not order is important in s

Re: Iceweasel Suddenly Killed

2008-08-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/29/2008 01:42 AM, Zaki Akhmad wrote: Hello I am using Iceweasel as my web browser. The problem starts as I installed mozilla-noscript add on.Previously I have twitterfox and downthemall addon and they work fine. But now, iceweasel suddenly stop, dissapear. What's wrong? Where's the log wh

Re: limiting a user?

2008-08-29 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Jeu 28 août 2008 23:10, Zach Uram a écrit : [...] > How can I limit how much disk space he can use and limit how much > bandwidth? lokk for "quota" package. You will have to enable quotas on the filesystem (if the Filesystem accept it) in the /etc/fstab file and remount the filesystem. Then, yo

Re: Problem starting Apache with PHP

2008-08-29 Thread Tim Edwards
Oscar Corte wrote: Hi John Thanks for your answer. The reason why I’m doing this is that I want to use the LAMPP approach for a server. As I understand the way to make Apache use PHP modules and also have PHP to work with apache is by including some flags and configuration directiv

Re: console font corruption after exiting xorg

2008-08-29 Thread Mumia W..
On 08/28/2008 11:35 AM, Scott Edwards wrote: I'm having similar problems on two different machines. For now I'll focus on the laptop running stable on a g4 ppc CPU. After I switch to a console screen, or exit from xorg, the console font is corrupted. I can see what I type, but you cannot make

Re: rkhunter on Etch

2008-08-29 Thread Tim Edwards
Sam Kuper wrote: Okay, so if I understand you correctly, a backport is a kind of refactoring: the overt functionality doesn't change, but the underlying functionality does (the refactored code is more secure, or less memory intensive, or what-have-you depending on the nature of the fix).