Re: Miscellaneous and security

1998-01-04 Thread Adam Klein
On Sat, Jan 03, 1998 at 10:31:29PM +0100, Mario Fabiano wrote: > I am a new Debian user. I actually have been using Linux for a while. I > have some questions. > > > Is there some way to unpack a Debian package in a place different than > the target directories, e.g. /tmp? The aim is just to look

Re: Miscellaneous and security

1998-01-04 Thread Daniel Martin at cush
Mario Fabiano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have found some log files in /var/log that are readable by anybody. > Maybe they are not particularly critical. I want anyway to change their > permissions, for instance to 640, for the owners root.adm. Will be the > permissions kept by the logrotate p

Re: Miscellaneous and security

1998-01-03 Thread Kevin J Poorman
On Sat, 03 Jan 1998 22:31:29 +0100 Mario Fabiano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >I am a new Debian user. I actually have been using Linux for a while. >I >have some questions. > > >Is there some way to unpack a Debian package in a place different than >the target directories, e.g. /tmp? The aim is ju

Miscellaneous and security

1998-01-03 Thread Mario Fabiano
I am a new Debian user. I actually have been using Linux for a while. I have some questions. Is there some way to unpack a Debian package in a place different than the target directories, e.g. /tmp? The aim is just to look at the files belonging to the package. Is there some way, maybe using dpk