Nathan E Norman writes:
> On Fri, 10 Sep 1999, Matus "fantomas" Uhlar wrote:
>> can anyone tell me where does dpkg store its preinstall and
>> postinstall scripts when installing packages ?
>
> /var/lib/dpkg/info iirc
That is correct. However dpkg is not necessarily the only program
which execu
Brad writes:
> One solution would be to write a makefile that detects the location
> of the perl binary and then prepends the proper shebang line to the
> beginning of your perl programs.
Another trick is this:
#! /usr/bin/env perl
print "Hello, world\n";
This depends on env being in /u
Paulo Henrique Baptista de Oliveira writes:
> Hi all,
> I want to transverse /usr/src/linux with Ctags or Etags and there isnt
>an option to do this.
> My question is: how to do this thing?
Something along these lines:
find . -name "*.[ch]" -print | etags -
should do the tr
Chad Walstrom writes:
> Well, I can't site any reason w/xdm other than possibly using
> something like kdm or gdm periodically. However, I do know run
> levels come in handy. Let's say, for example, you'd like to work on
> your web pages at home, perhaps running mysql and apache with php.
> Yet,
I unpacked all the *.orig.tar.gz from .../bo/source, and did a little
counting.
du reports 1.7Gb in 773 packages. I did some line counts as well; we
have more than 52 million lines in total, of which over 18 million are
in *.c files and over 3 million in *.h files.
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is a short sighted approach. Pick a powerful
>editor and invest some time in learning it. (You don't have to learn
>it all, and you don't have to learn all that much at first, either.)
>It will really pack off. And I think the same philosophy applies,
>perhaps to a lesser deg
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service, in fact.)
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Christopher E. Stefan writes:
>After upgrading from 1.1 to 1.2 none of my suid-perl scripts worked
>anymore. I ended up having to put C wrappers around all of them.
I reported this as a bug a while back, don't recall the number. A bit
disappointing to see so little reaction.
?
>>
>> is it a kernel or a libc problem?
>>
>> Has inn for debian been compiled with MMAP turned off? If not, should
>> this be reported as a bug against inn?
>
>Hmm.. I run a non-debian version of inn, aqnd it works fine with mmap.
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ajordomo
package, don't know if it's been fixed yet.
> when sending mail to majordomo for help or lists it sends the
>correct info back to me. if i send to the list i get the mail returned
>with 'no such recipient'.
Might need to see the full bounce.
Brian C. White writes:
>I'm trying to set up majordomo on our server, but have run into the
>following problem.
>
>Any mail sent to the "majordomo" alias and gets piped into the majordomo
>command via "wrapper" causes majordomo to just spin its wheels, chewing
>cpu cycles and allocating more and mo
David Engel writes:
>Richard Kettlewell writes:
>>Jeffery S. Coy, Jr. writes:
>>>i just installed the aout-svgalib-1.28-6.deb package, and noticed it
>>>installs to /usr/i486-linuxaout rather than /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout, so
>>>the system can't find it
Jeffery S. Coy, Jr. writes:
>i just installed the aout-svgalib-1.28-6.deb package, and noticed it
>installs to /usr/i486-linuxaout rather than /usr/lib/i486-linuxaout, so
>the system can't find it.
No, /usr/i486-linuxaout/lib is the correct place; I'd expect the
problem to be something else. I d
>>One could make the uid of the account zero to achieve this without
>>making pppd setuid, though I can imagine this making people jump up
>>and down about security - can anyone think of an attack on this?
>
>If the user figures a way to change their shell, you're dead.
Quite so. Similarly if th
Juhani Luhtanen writes:
>Failed to create group majordom:
>adduser: the user you specified already exist
>
>when I try to run dpkg --install with the majordomo.deb file.
It looks to me like the base disks now have the `majordom' user but
not the corresponding group (before you even install Majord
>>good question. and why isn't pppd setuid root? if it's a security issue,
>>a ppp group would be in order.
>
>I'd say 'because it doesn't neeed to be' is a good justification.
>
>If you need to have non-root users execute ppp as root, take a look
>at the 'sudo' or 'super' packages. They allow yo
Martin Rheumer writes:
>I am running a number of shell scripts and find I have to specify sh
>and then the script name. The first line of the script is always
>#!/bin/sh which I am assuming takes care of this. Could someone
>provide some hints what I have done wrong or some pointers.
Have you mad
>How can I stop cron sending a message root everytime it runs a
>script. I have a couple of cron jobs that run every 15 minutes and I
>am getting hundreds of messages a day.
Make sure that the programs in question don't produce any output
(e.g. by redirecting the output to /dev/null.) Cron mailin
...in fact apropos my previous comments about perl, I note that the
description reads as follows:
Larry Wall's Practical Extracting and Report Language.
An interpreted scripting language, known among some as "Unix's
Swiss Army Chainsaw".
Perl is optimized for scanning arbitrary t
I used to be able to do setgid (and indeed, setuid) scripts in perl;
but after upgrading to 5.002-7, they break, keeping the uid/gid of the
invoking process. This has just spannered my mail system, which uses
a perl script to do the final delivery (and delivery agents must be
setgid mail under Deb
I think `net' would be a good group name for this.
Rob Browning writes:
>> "C" == Craig Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>C> I suppose that would do the job, but what if a sysadmin wants to
>C> allow users to dial in using ppp, but NOT allow them to dialout
>C> with minicom or send faxes?
>>find / -size +459976c -noleaf -type f -name '*.deb'|\
>>xargs -n 1 dpkg-split -s {} && rm {}
>>
>>I was thinking that {} would be replaced by the filename but that's
>>not the case. Anyone know how to solve this?
>
>It's find that does the replacing. None of the {}s are in the find
>arguments,
Craig Sanders writes:
>
>On Sun, 12 May 1996, Rob Browning wrote:
>
>> >>>>> "R" == Richard Kettlewell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>>
>> R> pppd has to do various messing around creating network interfaces
>> R> and so on, s
I think this was meant to be sent to the mailing list.
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From: Yves Arrouye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Richard Kettlewell)
Subject: Re: diald (Was: Re: Must pppd be run by root?)
Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 00
Rick Macdonald writes:
>I'm configuring a fresh install of 1.1. I can only start pppd as
>root. I found that /etc/ppp had permisions of 700. After changing
>that it still can only be run as root. Comparing "strace" output
>shows that it may be failing doing an ioctl on /dev/ttyp0. Changing
>the p
ring input and waiting for more to come out of tail.
Or both.
Try with a much bigger `test' file and see what happens.
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log files, with any luck: those
would provide a pointer, too.
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s depending on both svgalib and X than having to explain what
>4 gs packages is good for.
I agree with this.
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