[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) wrote on 02.10.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
This is from the linux kernel mailing list. I find it pretty completly sums
op my thoughts on all the new constitution and voting and policy voting
stuff that we've been setting up. I haven't been vocal about this, but I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc Singer) wrote on 04.10.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What is the *right* way to sync to slink (or any other distribution)?
I looked into dftp and found that it seems more like a method for
installing new packages than keeping in sync with the most recent
versions.
The
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Paul Slootman) wrote on 07.10.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue 06 Oct 1998, Robert Woodcock wrote:
Just out of curiosity, what's the security track record on smail vs exim
for the last two years? The standard MTA should have a chance of being
secure from remote attacks
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Justin Maurer) wrote on 04.10.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On a related note, do we want to continue using names from pixar movies
now that Bruce is gone?
i see no reason not to. they are nice names, the only problem is that we
may be running out of good ones (i admit, rc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Gertzfield) wrote on 16.10.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Brent == Brent Fulgham [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Brent I'd like to chime in -- It's a real annoyance that the base
Brent disks don't set up lilo to let you boot into multiple
Brent operating systems.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Tille) wrote on 08.10.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
see at the people near you and look at yourself with the eyes of
an Hitchhiker)
Can't. (Can you guess that I don't much like the Hitchhiker stuff?)
- Another naming scheme without any background would be A, B,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 16.10.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I disagree quite strongly. If the intent was to have
uncompressed originals on the system we would have shipped them as
such.
Indeed - the .debs would be smaller that way.
MfG Kai
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter S Galbraith) wrote on 16.10.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
- If you are using some docs often on a 486, you end up uncompressing them
because it's too slow otherwise.
I'm using a 486. Uncompressing text is too slow? Ridiculous.
On the other hand, I currently have about
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Santiago Vila) wrote on 17.12.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Juergen A. Erhard wrote:
Joey == Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Joey A critical bug on an unimportant package is a sure bet to get
that package Joey pulled from the distirbution
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Wichert Akkerman) wrote on 31.01.99 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Previously Michael Stone wrote:
perl-suid 31904 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Secuity hole with pe=
rl (suidperl) and nosuid mounts on Linux] [13] (Darren Stalder [EMAIL
PROTECTED]
.com )
=20
I'm not sure
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Branden Robinson) wrote on 31.01.99 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
29360: point 1) is an issue for the release notes; I can't retroactively
patch an old prerm;
You could, but it would be fairly ugly, and I'm not sure it's worth it.
Startegy: pre-depend on a package that does the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bdale Garbee) wrote on 26.01.99 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
Hmmm. swinstall (HP-UX native I think) seems to support dependencies.
It's pretty ugly though and I don't know if there's a command line
version.
Yes, you can drive
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bristel) wrote on 14.05.99 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
abandon those who run slink. Note that if linus did that, the 2.2.7 and
2.2.8 would never have come out because work had already begun on the 2.3
kernels.
Umm, may I point out that 2.3.0 == 2.2.8? The difference is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Darren O. Benham) wrote on 16.05.99 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, May 16, 1999 at 08:09:00PM +0200, Kai Henningsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Bristel) wrote on 14.05.99 in Pine.LNX.3.96.=
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
=20
abandon those who run slink. Note that if linus did
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 14.08.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
John == John Goerzen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
No real reason? Only one package can listen in on port 25, and
John There is no real reason that all must listen on port 25.
Then you and I have very
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adrian Bridgett) wrote on 16.08.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 12:31:47 -0500 (+), Branden Robinson wrote:
On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 07:22:26PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote:
Well, the FHS is contradicting itself here. On one hand, it says that
ifconfig
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jacob Kuntz) wrote on 15.08.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Clint Adams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
No real reason? Only one package can listen in on port 25, and
Only one package can listen on port 25 of one IP. It is possible to
have multiple packages listening on
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Gunthorpe) wrote on 14.08.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, 14 Aug 2000, Joey Hess wrote:
You know, if apt could only support Reccommends, task packages could be
I don't care for this much, it breaks the model that apt-get follows, it
Well, I'd *very very much*
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hamish Moffatt) wrote on 25.12.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, Dec 23, 2000 at 08:43:51PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
I have a comment: NO WAY IN HELL. The day that we start rejecting DUL
posts is the day that several people leave the project, me included. How
many
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miles Bader) wrote on 24.12.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
flame war
Now maybe if we were using the RBL, DUL, and RSS lists... :-)
/flame war
GNU mailing lists (supposedly) use RBL, but in a mode where `spam' isn't
deleted, but
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lars Wirzenius) wrote on 24.12.00 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Robert van der Meulen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Ignoring spam has made the internet the spam-ridden place it is right now.
Spam hasn't been ignored for the past six years, thank you very much.
It thrives regardless of the
Package: wnpp
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerfried Fuchs) wrote on 26.05.03 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Please, don't simply massfile ITPs without thinking on their impact and
without any deeper informations
Please don't assume someone jasn't thought about something just because
you haven't been personally
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gerfried Fuchs) wrote on 02.06.03 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
See, it is nothing personal (you seem to take it that way), but
packages with similar functionality should be questioned, and if the
Says who? I reject that assertion.
A long description in an ITP would
a) reduce
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Nunya) wrote on 17.12.03 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 11:35:54AM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
| You are totally rationalizing.
*sigh* From Branden's original post where he mentioned the names:
We might use names from Christian demonology (since
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Cameron Patrick) wrote on 18.12.03 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:32:41AM +, Scott James Remnant wrote:
| On Thu, 2003-12-18 at 01:16, Nunya wrote:
|
| Face it. You're practicing hate speech. You're not better than what
| you hate.
|
| Ya
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joel Baker) wrote on 17.12.03 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 07:25:11PM -0800, Nunya wrote:
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 07:56:41PM -0700, Joel Baker wrote:
For the record, however, if you consider saying that the lifestyle or
beliefs of someone you don't
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Henning Makholm) wrote on 18.12.03 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Scripsit Joel Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 03:05:46PM +1100, Russell Coker wrote:
On Thu, 18 Dec 2003 14:39, Joel Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Imagining it? I suppose it's possible that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Doug Geiger) wrote on 16.06.96 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, 16 Jun 1996, Chris Fearnley wrote:
Umm, non-free to distribute shouldn't be on /any/ ftp site, right?
I believe 'non-free to distribute' means, you can't sell it for money
(many people do this - they give the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 12.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Kai == Kai Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kai Well, yes. Scan the temp dir after unpacking. If it contains one
Kai directory and nothing else, that directory is the main package
Kai directory. If it contains
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Mortimer) wrote on 13.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On May 12, Jim Pick wrote
Excellent write-up, Klee. Thanks for doing it.
I second this; a lot of thought has obviously gone into this, and it
shows!
aol Me too! /aol
* [1.1] It must be possible to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 13.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Kai == Kai Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Kai Well, yes. Scan the temp dir after unpacking. If it contains one
Kai directory and nothing else, that directory is the main package
Kai directory. If it contains
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 13.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Or, thirdly, we use pristine sources iff they are in supported
formats, or else the upstream source is massaged into a supported
format, and BIG signs are posted pointing to the real sources and the
steps
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Walker) wrote on 14.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I beg to differ. I think what is the sensible default depends on the
usage of the machine. For departmental mail servers, then you are
correct relaying is more sensible, but for Satellite systems, it is
more sensible to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lees) wrote on 15.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, 14 May 1997, Mathieu Guillaume wrote:
I've encountered two little problems in hamm.
First one shows while using dselect. I have the following message several
times:
[perl i18n stuff removed]
Basically, you
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 16.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Jim == Jim Van Zandt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Jim I think the .. pathname component problem deserves some
Jim attention. What does anybody think about these steps?
Jim 1) Incoming Debian source packages should be
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian Mays) wrote on 20.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I would not advocate implementing such a package this way. Most of
the config files that we would be interested in fixing for newbies can
include or source another file. Take sh-like shells for example. We
would have
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 19.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Basically, mailx conflicts with smail.
dpkg: error processing xmysql (--configure):
dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Setting up smail (3.2-3) ...
Error: system's FQDN hostname (citytel_prct40.citytel.net) doesn't match
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) wrote on 21.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Take the public domain part and put it in one package. Take the
non-free part and put it in another package. You already knew this but
I said it as context for the following:
Contact the author and ask them to issue
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Buddha Buck) wrote on 23.05.97 in
btWcb1.0.S23.gCSXp@debian:
Dale Scheetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
This is a continuous problem. I don't know why ftp.debian.org takes so
long to get in sync with master, but the problem simply propogates from
there to all the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Goerzen) wrote on 23.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Sven Rudolph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Christoph [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
On 21 May 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
Since we know of a number of things that have been broken in 2.0.30
(such as IP masquerading
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Koch) wrote on 24.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Quoting Kai Henningsen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Oh, I give in. There really is no excuse.
There is.
No.
2.0.30 has some problems, undoubtedly. I don't know if they're all fixed
with 2.0.30-6 (it works perfectly fine
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) wrote on 24.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hmm. Some thing that might help is a regular automatic comparision of
ftp.debian.org and master.debian.org. I'll think about that for a while
...
I just wrote something. First result: at this moment, master and ftp
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian Jackson) wrote on 26.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
What we want is:
* `--' always deletes the character to the left of the cursor.
* `Delete' always deletes to the right.
* `Control'+`H' produces help in Emacs, as before.
We want this to be true for the console, for
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Lameter) wrote on 26.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: What we want is:
: * `--' always deletes the character to the left of the cursor.
: * `Delete' always deletes to the right.
: * `Control'+`H' produces help in Emacs, as
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vadim Vygonets) wrote on 26.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
BTW, why does runlevel 6 mean reboot? Can't it be runlevel 9? It (6)
seems to be the standard in Linux boxen now, but why?
It's been standard in runlevel-based Unix for a long time. That's probably
because
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Manoj Srivastava) wrote on 26.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Christoph == Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Christoph Emacs is one application. We want to use an existing
Christoph STANDARD not screw up one more. Emacs can be
Christoph adapted. Please do use
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clint Adams) wrote on 26.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Which installation method are you using in dselect? In think you have to
specify the directory debian/dists/unstable as base directory and select
distributions main, contrib, and non-free.
This would be nice, but the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Jellinghaus) wrote on 27.05.97 in [EMAIL
PROTECTED]:
On May 26, Kai Henningsen wrote
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vadim Vygonets) wrote on 26.05.97 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
BTW, why does runlevel 6 mean reboot? Can't it be runlevel 9? It (6)
seems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Thomas Koenig) wrote on 27.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Scott K. Ellis wrote:
And if you don't read the documentation, especially the release
instructions, you get what you deserve.
What part of the documentation are you referring to? I found nothing
referring to that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Jellinghaus) wrote on 27.05.97 in [EMAIL
PROTECTED]:
my 822-date says :
local timezone differs from GMT by a non-minute interval
local time: Tue May 27 19:22:48 1997
GMT time: Tue May 27 17:23:08 1997
how to correkt this (it's very ugly - debmake and dch are
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Raul Miller) wrote on 27.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
These packages should conflict with the versions of dpkg which
have the problem. [Or maybe a predepends on a good version of
dpkg?]
That won't help. Once you [U]pdate, the old dpkg will refuse to work. You
don't even
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Frey) wrote on 27.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
AltGr is a special modifier: it is a kind of Hyper key if you want
(with Alt == Meta).
Ah yes, this brings up a point: *Don't* use Alt=(bit 0x80)! This won't
work for most people (anybody that needs more than ASCII).
kleptog@svana.org (Martijn van Oosterhout) wrote on 01.08.02 in [EMAIL
PROTECTED]:
No reason, however in the docs there is an example line to put in apt.conf
Which docs?
What line?
to automatically generate md5sum files for every package that doesn't
contain them.
So after you do an
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Steve Langasek) wrote on 16.08.02 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
From the heated discussion I've just had on IRC, I've gathered the
following:
* It is assumed that for the vast majority of C++ libs we ship, upstream
has already transitioned to using the GCC 3.2 ABI, therefore
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess) wrote on 30.07.02 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I don't think it offers much if anything over special-purpose staging
areas as is being used for perl 5.8 right now.
It seems to me staging areas could solve a lot of these difficulties, yes.
I'm not clear on the current
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (David Welton) wrote on 28.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
While it would be nice if new developers took over some orphaned packages
(I plan to), unloading a package on someone that they have no interest in,
is, IMHO, a bad thing. If they are personally interested in it, they
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lees) wrote on 27.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There are ways to avoid this. For example, modify dpkg not to include any
line with config=yes in it in the md5sum of certain files.
This is a troll, right?
Or maybe you have forgotten how conffiles are actually handled:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Galen Hazelwood) wrote on 31.05.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Christian Schwarz wrote:
On Thu, 29 May 1997, Galen Hazelwood wrote:
(Don't ask me what the historical reasons are, though. I might start to
whimper...)
Sorry, but I couldn't resist :-) What are the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Craig Sanders) wrote on 01.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The config database should be regarded as a convenience for
{pre,post}{inst,rm} scripts and /etc/init.d/ boot time scripts only.
Well, that was what started the discussion, anyway. Then the general-admin-
tool stuff
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jason Gunthorpe) wrote on 01.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I really must admit I find the GPL very cryptic, it's hard to say exactly
what it means if you look at very small detail. I do think that it makes
sense however that you should be able to put RCS in a dll and link to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Hands) wrote on 02.06.97 in
sS5XS1.0.gy5.Mhgap@debian:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
for SmallEiffel (which I am packaging) to work at all, it needs an
env-variable to be set.
Is it not possible to patch the program, to default to the value that you
were going to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian White) wrote on 04.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
That depends on how you look at it.
If the author does not do significant maintenence or has abandoned the
package then this is true.
What if the author doesn't want you to do ports? We have one case of
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian White) wrote on 05.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I can understand Debian making policy that none of the core system will
depend on such packages, but I don't see any advantage to simply disallowing
such copyrights from the main distribution.
With respect to copyrights,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Pick) wrote on 01.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Yes, very limiting. The code actually cannot be linked statically!
Can't be linked dynamically either... read the GPL.
Can too. Read the law.
The GPL _cannot_ restrict someone from doing that, regardless of what they
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lees) wrote on 02.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 30 May 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lees) wrote on 27.05.97 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There are ways to avoid this. For example, modify dpkg not to include
any line with config=yes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jim Pick) wrote on 02.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I shouldn't have said 'dropping'. I don't think they are throwing any of
the old code out. But they are switching to Java as the primary language
which they are pushing. All of the NextStep API's will be 100% accessible
ftp.debian.org has caught up to most of the recent master changes, except
...
[...]
d WebPages/.
d WebPages/..
-d WebPages/1.2
-l WebPages/Bugs
- ../debian.org-local/Bugs
-d WebPages/CDs
-l WebPages/Lists-Archives
[...]
... it doesn't mirror the WebPages directory. Is this
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) wrote on 03.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I wound up in a catch-22 with some of the extra packages:
- ghostview and gv both depend on gs. However, package gs-alladin which
provides gs never gets installed because dselect tries to: gs-alladin is
in non-free,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Baker) wrote on 07.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes:
Can't be linked dynamically either... read the GPL.
Can too. Read the law.
The GPL _cannot_ restrict someone from doing
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andy Mortimer) wrote on 08.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Jun 8, Kai Henningsen wrote
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) wrote on 03.06.97 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [dselect fails to install main
packages depending on ones in non-free or contrib]
Well, this is one
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Guy Maor) wrote on 08.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes:
it doesn't mirror the WebPages directory. Is this intentional?
Yes, Sue and I decided that there was no need to have a copy of the
web pages on the ftp site also.
I'm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Hands) wrote on 11.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The problems that need to be solved are:
unpacking all the request scripts early enough to run them all before the
first pre-inst;
and making the request scripts able to diagnose what questions to ask,
when
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Meskes) wrote on 12.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I get quite a lot of these messages:
inetd[153]: ident/tcp server failing (looping), service terminated
How can I tell which service is the one that's asked for too often?
I'd say it's ident/tcp :-)
I guess you're
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philippe Troin) wrote on 12.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm stuck with the diald package, and I've got problems with users
from old versions. The thing is:
the files /etc/diald/diald.ip-{up,down} weren't conffiles, and now
they are.
Installing a new version of diald where
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alexander Koch) wrote on 13.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Quoting Philip Hands ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Qmail is most definitely capable of UUCP (I use it here), and AFAIK bang
paths can be done with rmail.
With what addition? Last time I really tried it, it was only working
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Baker) wrote on 13.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Alexander Koch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Both qmail (which proved insecure most evil grin) and Exim are not
capable of UUCP or even bang paths! So a lot of those guys in countries
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Lameter) wrote on 12.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
It might be good if we would replace smail in hamm with exim. Exim should
be the standard mailer for hamm:
- Exim is based on the same concepts as smail.
- It is developed with newer concepts in mind
- Exim is
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christian Hudon) wrote on 14.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Jun 13, Sam Ockman wrote
Okay, so say some random person who has installed Debian wants XEmacs
19.15 because he needs some feature. This seems like a reasonable
request... He could get it from the Hamm
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Tobias) wrote on 13.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Jun 13, Michael Meskes wrote:
Thanks Peter.
I guess it's the ident service. So I try nowait.120 and see what
happens.
Of course it is the ident service (that's what the error message of
inetd said). But the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Pete Templin) wrote on 13.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The question is this: I've compiled a lean, mean kernel with the
appropriate IP forwarding enabled (no firewalling or masquerading is being
used). Will it route by default, or do I need to add a specific package
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erv Walter) wrote on 13.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The locale errors are getting extremely annoying. What is the most
correct way to solve the problems. unsetting LANG solves the problem,
but I can't find where it is getting set in the first place. That's
not the most
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tom Lees) wrote on 09.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well, it looks as we will have to agree to disagree.
The file is not modified locally per s.e., just written locally in a
Uh, there's no dots in per se. That's latin for by or in itself - per is
by, and se is self.
MfG
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Philip Hands) wrote on 15.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Exim doesn't provide UUCP capabilities *at all*, thus it is rather
useless for sites that use UUCP (like me).
I expect that you will admit that UUCP sites are a minority. I use UUCP,
I don't know about him, but I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andreas Jellinghaus) wrote on 15.06.97 in [EMAIL
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the dpkg replace function works only for the first package listed.
one of my package (isdnutils) replaces more than one package (vbox,
isdnlog, xisdnutils). maybe someone has an idea how i can make sure,
that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Baker) wrote on 15.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
perl: warning: Setting locale failed.
perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:
LC_ALL = (unset),
LANG = us
are supported and installed on your system.
perl: warning: Falling back
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Alan Dorman) wrote on 15.06.97 in [EMAIL
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My two personal reservations:
1) I think Daniel J. Bernstein (qmail's author) doesn't seem to know
how to have a technical discussion without seeming as if he's tacking
an implicit you stupid idiot on to the
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote on 16.06.97 in [EMAIL
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Kai Henningsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[exim]
I also hope to figure out how to get exim to have a customer-configurable
spam block when acting as MX for those customers - I
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Meskes) wrote on 17.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
No! You cannot use libc5 compiled perl with glibc locales! Wait for a
libc6 version of perl and everything should be fine again.
This is, of course, a problem nearly as serious as that about utmp.
MfG Kai
--
TO
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tim Cutts) wrote on 17.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 16 Jun 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:
I meant the possibility for a customer to request the ISP exim to reject
any mail that comes from, say, savetrees.com. You know, what AOL does,
except I want individual customers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Tomislav Vujec) wrote on 17.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Baker) wrote on 15.06.97 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: I got that (with perl only)
before I installed debian; it doesn't like locale settings
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas L Stewart) wrote on 16.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Is there a dftp.conf setup I can use that doesn't require me to do some
sed work on the packages file? The paths are wrong for the mirrors in the
one that's on the servers now.
The paths in the Packages file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas L Stewart) wrote on 17.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 17 Jun 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas L Stewart) wrote on 16.06.97 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Is there a dftp.conf setup I can use that doesn't require me to do some
sed work
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ben Pfaff) wrote on 17.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kai Henningsen) writes:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Michael Meskes) wrote on 17.06.97 in
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:
No! You cannot use libc5 compiled perl with glibc locales! Wait for a
libc6 version of perl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco Budde) wrote on 16.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Am 16.06.97 schrieb efraim # argh.org ...
Moin Alexander!
AK sendmail: too complicated
That's wrong. It's very easy to configure sendmail with the m4 scripts for
a leaf site. And professionell system adminstrators
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Bruce Perens) wrote on 18.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The time is out of joint, o 'cursed spite.
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology will set it right
on June 30, at one second before midnight UTC, by adding a leap second.
Systems that run on POSIX
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Douglas L Stewart) wrote on 18.06.97 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 18 Jun 1997, Kai Henningsen wrote:
ftpdir: /debian/hamm
This is probably the problem. The above path is relative to the /debian
directory. You might try
ftpdir: /debian
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