>>Brandon Mitchell wrote:
...
>So you don't want your users (that is if you have any) to run perl
>scripts? Well why didn't you say so: "chmod go-x /usr/bin/perl". This
>won't break dpkg, and since the system is down during upgrades (on a
>different kernel), there's no race condition. Or
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > > * (Re)mounting is disabled.
> > > * immutable-append-only are enforced by the kernel (i.e. you can't chmod
> > > them away).
> > Does this mean that you have to boot to a different kernel to do
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > * All filesystems are read-only.
> Even /home? How are these people going to create any data if all filesystems
> are read-only. Certainly, they have to have write access to some portion of
> the system. Yes? If they do have write access anyw
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:
>
> > You are just plain wrong. Perl has syscall which makes it possible to do
> > _anything_. You can't to _anything_ with sed. As for awk - I don't use
> > it.
>
> I said "sh + sed + awk + cut + (all th
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:
> On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:
> >
> > > Is it a goal for debian not to require perl? I don't think so - and
> > > that is one of the things I don't like with debian. It seems that
> > >
>
> On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
>
> > On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:
> >
> > It's not possible to do that with ANY unix. If you give someone a login
> > shell and a text editor, or even just an ftp-only login then they can
> > create executables.
>
> Please tell me h
On Tue, 8 Jul 1997, Craig Sanders wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:
>
>
> > Is it a goal for debian not to require perl? I don't think so - and
> > that is one of the things I don't like with debian. It seems that
> > debian is infested with perlism. There are "smart" perl
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:
> Is it a goal for debian not to require perl? I don't think so - and
> that is one of the things I don't like with debian. It seems that
> debian is infested with perlism. There are "smart" perl-scripts doing
> all sorts of things.
perl is no less s
> Hey don't get me wrong - I wasn't talking about debian as a whole, just
> that IMO - the installation isn't as good as redhat's and that it should
> be possible to do something about it.
I bought a new hard drive, so I just installed Red Hat and FreeBSD here
(no, I'm not switching). I was quit
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
> > I installed using ftp. When deb-ftp gets packets it doesn't indicate where
> > in the process it is. No estimated time is given - no "remaining packets"
> > is given.
> It would be a nice feature, but the debian programmers are currently busy
> ov
| I installed debian a few weeks ago and I noticed that when an installation
| disk is corrupted you have to start the installation all over again. If I
Well. Here's what I say to new users here: take seven disks, format them under
DOS using a full format (not quick), copy the disks images using
On Sun, 6 Jul 1997, Alexander Kjeldaas wrote:
>
> I installed debian a few weeks ago and I noticed that when an installation
> disk is corrupted you have to start the installation all over again. If I
> remember correctly there were 7 diskettes.
Your memory is partially correct. Debian requires
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