Bug#60573: general: wrong perms on /dev/null and /tmp in potato upgrade

2000-03-17 Thread der.hans
Subject: general:
Package: general
Version: 2315
Severity: grave

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /dev/null
crw-r--r--1 root root   1,   3 Feb 22  1999 /dev/null

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -ld /tmp
drwxr-xr-t3 root root 1024 Mar 14 18:40 /tmp

/dev/null was 644 not 666, which is what it is everywhere but my two
problem machines.

/tmp was 1755, not 1777 as it needs to be.

This machine was installed off a Cheap*Bytes 2.1 cd without these probs. Today I
used apt-get -u dist-upgrade to move to potato, then noticed the problems.

The other machine with the /dev/null problem was also slink updated to potato.

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Re: xfs question

2000-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 04:19:47PM +0100, Michael Meskes wrote:
 Now that xfs per default does not listen on a tcp port anymore, could
 anyone please tell me how to configure x (i.e. XF86Config) to use unix
 domain sockets instead?

I think the answer is in the FAQ:

zgrep -i unix /usr/share/doc/xfree86-common/FAQ.gz
Like Unix shell login sessions, which are customized by a file like
Like the Unix filesystem, windows in X are laid out like a tree with a
FontPath unix/:7100

Yup.

I sometimes wonder why I bother maintaining that FAQ.

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Turbo Vision non-free? (Was Re: Another packages wishlist)

2000-03-17 Thread Damian M Gryski
On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:

 Carlos Barros wrote:
  
  On Fri, Mar 03, 2000 at 08:19:39PM -0200, Aigars Mahinovs wrote:
  
   Yann Dirson wrote:
  
   [snip]
** RHide: a curses-based IDE for FreePascal, with Borland look-and-feel
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/~sho/rho/rhide/rhide.html
   [snip]
  
  
  This one I think requires a not free library. rhtvision.
  
  I was a sponsor of the rhtvision and setedit packages and it has problems
  due to rhtvision is derivated from tvision and tvision is not free.
  
  --
  Carlos Barros.
 
 o well ... then i withdraw the ITP
 will wait for better times
 
 or, maybe can statically linked binary only package be placed at least in 
 non-free?
 

   Turbo Vision is non-free?

   From http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,17285,00.html
   (last modified Sept 01/99)

quote
   Question:
  Where can I find the public domain version of Turbo Vision?

   Answer: 
  It can be found at
  ftp.inprise.com/pub/borlandcpp/devsupport/archive/turbovision/
/quote

   Is Borland's page wrong?  You should mail them and get an official
   answer. (Isn't a FAQ on their site official enough?)

   Damian

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Re: Turbo Vision non-free? (Was Re: Another packages wishlist)

2000-03-17 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
Damian M Gryski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Turbo Vision is non-free?
 
From http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,17285,00.html
(last modified Sept 01/99)
 
 quote
Question:
   Where can I find the public domain version of Turbo Vision?
 
Answer: 
   It can be found at
   ftp.inprise.com/pub/borlandcpp/devsupport/archive/turbovision/
 /quote
 
Is Borland's page wrong?  You should mail them and get an official
answer. (Isn't a FAQ on their site official enough?)

It certainly isn't public domain. From one file (tview.cpp, inside
source.zip, inside tv.cpp):

/*
 *  Turbo Vision - Version 2.0
 *
 *  Copyright (c) 1994 by Borland International
 *  All Rights Reserved.
 *
 */

That's about as non-free as you can get.

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Bug#60573: general: wrong perms on /dev/null and /tmp in potato upgrade

2000-03-17 Thread Branden Robinson
reassign 60573 SantiagoVila
thanks

On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 04:57:37PM -0700, der.hans wrote:
 Subject: general:
 Package: general
 Version: 2315
 Severity: grave
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /dev/null
 crw-r--r--1 root root   1,   3 Feb 22  1999 /dev/null
 
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -ld /tmp
 drwxr-xr-t3 root root 1024 Mar 14 18:40 /tmp
 
 /dev/null was 644 not 666, which is what it is everywhere but my two
 problem machines.
 
 /tmp was 1755, not 1777 as it needs to be.
 
 This machine was installed off a Cheap*Bytes 2.1 cd without these probs. 
 Today I
 used apt-get -u dist-upgrade to move to potato, then noticed the problems.
 
 The other machine with the /dev/null problem was also slink updated to potato.
 
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 Debian Release: 2.2
 Kernel Version: Linux shasta 2.0.36 #2 Sun Feb 21 15:55:27 EST 1999 i586 
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2000-03-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
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Bug#60573: general: wrong perms on /dev/null and /tmp in potato upgrade
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Re: sendmail M4 to run DNS based spam filters per RCPT

2000-03-17 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Scott Jennings wrote:
 I've written an M4 file for sendmail 3.9.3, and packaged it up as
 a debian package.

Doesn't sendmail 8.10 already have something similar?

Wichert.

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Re: Less interactive upgrades.

2000-03-17 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Tom Rothamel wrote:
 The problem I have is that dpkg keeps on prompting me as to the
 disposition of config files I have changed. Don't get me wrong, I like
 the fact that it asks me what to do... I just wish it would do it at
 the start, and proceed cleanly through the upgrade without further
 prompting. 

dpkg can't do that anyway if you use apt since apt does multiple dpkg
runs.

 - When apt runs to upgrade packages, it will call a new program (which
   I plan to write) in the same way that it calls
   dpkg-preconfigure. TNP would scan the list of upgraded packages,
   looking for config files. (This scan could go rather fast, as it
   only looks at config files, rather than having to unpack the
   whole thing.) Where it finds changed config files (using the same
   rules as dpkg) it will add them to a list. 

It's rather slow, since you need to unpack the .deb to get the md5sums
for its conffiles, read /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list to see if a conffiles
still belongs to a package, /var/lib/dpkg/status to get the previous
md5sums, etc. Oh, and you're not really allowed to use things in
/var/lib/dpkg/ directly anyway since the format might change. (Warning
in advance: it will likely change this year).

Oh, and you still loose if people don't use apt.

 - Once the file is being appropriately created, dpkg will be modified
   to optionally take as an argument to an option the name of the well
   known file.

Okay, just to warn you: a) I'm really anal about patches I accept for
dpkg. b) I'm not sure I like this approach. c) I'm really anal about
accepting patches.

 This, along with debconf and a program like debecho (which doesn't
 exist, but if it did would allow logging of informational messages to
 a file) would allow for unattended installations and upgrades, after
 the initial QA session. I think that would be a real good thing to
 have, especially if we don't lose flexability when it happens.

There is already a patch to make dpkg log things using syslog. At some
point I'ld like to generalize that, but we can't do that until debconf
is used everywhere. Woody+2 I think.

 I'd also like to know if there's a preferred textui toolkit for use
 during installs/upgrades, or if I should just roll my own. 

debconf

 I've decided to work on this rather than bettering ddiff integration
 because this is something that can work stand-alone to better the user
 experience, while ddiff will require new or different archives to
 achive maximum usefulness. (Ie, the diffs have to be stored
 somewhere.)

Right, which is why it's on the TODO-list for dpkg. I hope to have this
done in woody.

 Lastly, is there a more appropriate list than debian-devel for
 announcing projects like this?

debian-dpkg and debian-admintool.

Wichert.

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Re: sendmail M4 to run DNS based spam filters per RCPT

2000-03-17 Thread Elie Rosenblum
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 01:04:48AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
 Previously Scott Jennings wrote:
  I've written an M4 file for sendmail 3.9.3, and packaged it up as
  a debian package.
 
 Doesn't sendmail 8.10 already have something similar?

It supports arbitrary DNS blacklists, and it has this feature:
CONFIG: FEATURE(`delay_checks') delays check_mail and check_relay
after check_rcpt and allows for exceptions from the checks.

It does not, however, let you only move dnsbl's to post-rcpt, and it
does not let you configure it on a per-user basis.

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Re: Less interactive upgrades.

2000-03-17 Thread Daniel Burrows
  It seems to me that a better way to do this (in the abstract case :) ) would
be to librarify dpkg -- that is, to make a libdpkg which approximately parallels
libapt.  This would also have the effect of solving some annoying quirks in the
apt/dpkg interaction which are caused (if I remember correctly) by the fact that
apt marshalls a whole lot of package installations for a single dpkg call, but
can't easily tell which ones were successfully performed and which failed if
something goes wrong.

  Of course, having never even tried to look at dpkg's code, I have no idea how
easy this is given the program's design.  I suspect that if it were possible
someone would have done it already :)

  Daniel

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Re: Less interactive upgrades.

2000-03-17 Thread Robert Thomson
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 06:24:47PM -0500, Will Lowe wrote:
  One other question: Does anyone think having a never ask about this
  config file again option is a good thing? I'm torn.
 
 Not on a per-conffile basis, I think. Maybe there should be a way to make
 the default for _all_ conffiles be ask no questions, (accept the dpkg N
 answer), send email about what you did.  With BIG WARNINGS about how much
 stuff might break if you enabled it.

Ideally, I'd only ever like to be asked if I want to upgrade a conf file if
the syntax or semantics of the conffile has changed.. This would be another of
the maintainer's roles.

Regards,
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YAPFSR: Yet Another Proposal For Speeding Releases.

2000-03-17 Thread Nicolás Lichtmaier
It's freeze time, and we are all discussing the same things, we would all
like to have a faster woody. I have a simple proposal for that:

 Let's keep the system we have now.

 But keeping the RC bug count low. A RC bug will only be permitted to stay
for long if it is related to a release goal. And people must be working for
cleaning it. Packages with RC bugs will be automatically removed after a
couple of weeks. There could be an automatic bug horizon or something...

 Bye!



Re: Less interactive upgrades.

2000-03-17 Thread Steve Greenland
On 16-Mar-00, 18:02 (CST), Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
 Oh, and you still loose if people don't use apt.

Well, there's a *lot* features one doesn't get unless one uses apt. So?

 There is already a patch to make dpkg log things using syslog. At some
 point I'ld like to generalize that, but we can't do that until debconf
 is used everywhere. Woody+2 I think.

Uh, why not publish the tool/capability, and let those packages that
can use it do so? Having it a available would be an incentive to update
one's packages, and be of at least partial benefit to the users. Or am I
missing a point?

Steve


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Re: ITP: dvipdfm - A DVI to PDF translator

2000-03-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Brian Mays wrote:

 The ligatures are supported, but dvips switches the characters in the
 font around.  This can be fixed by turning off the G option in the
 /etc/texmf/dvips/config.pdf file.

But the comment says the whole story, it is compatible with standard
Adobe fonts, aka times which is what I had the problem with.

Jason



Re: Less interactive upgrades.

2000-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:36:15PM -0600, Steve Greenland wrote:
 On 16-Mar-00, 18:02 (CST), Wichert Akkerman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 
  Oh, and you still loose if people don't use apt.
 
 Well, there's a *lot* features one doesn't get unless one uses apt. So?
 
  There is already a patch to make dpkg log things using syslog. At some
  point I'ld like to generalize that, but we can't do that until debconf
  is used everywhere. Woody+2 I think.
 
 Uh, why not publish the tool/capability, and let those packages that
 can use it do so? Having it a available would be an incentive to update
 one's packages, and be of at least partial benefit to the users. Or am I
 missing a point?

It's not something that packages have a choice of. The dpkg in the CVS
devel branch can log all of it's output, even make stdout silent
altogether with the exception of important messages (i.e. stderr). It just
will not be seen in production until potato is gone and I resolve the
issue with debconf (debconf plays arounf with stdout/stderr a lot, and
this functionality doesn't like it all the time).

Like I said though, I am not messing with any of this until potato is
released.

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Re: Less interactive upgrades.

2000-03-17 Thread Tom Rothamel
On 16 Mar 2000 20:14:47 -0500, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
 It's rather slow, since you need to unpack the .deb to get the md5sums
 for its conffiles, read /var/lib/dpkg/info/*.list to see if a conffiles
 still belongs to a package, /var/lib/dpkg/status to get the previous
 md5sums, etc.

Actually, some of the code I wrote for ddiff should be able to do this
rather quickly, since it can md5 a member of a package without having
to fully unpack it.

 Oh, and you're not really allowed to use things in
 /var/lib/dpkg/ directly anyway since the format might change. (Warning
 in advance: it will likely change this year).

Will the output of 'dpkg -s' remain stable? As I see it now, that and
the files on the disk are all I need.
 
 Oh, and you still loose if people don't use apt.

Yes, but if they don't use apt, then upgrades are probably infrequent
and hard anyway.

  - Once the file is being appropriately created, dpkg will be modified
to optionally take as an argument to an option the name of the well
known file.
 
 Okay, just to warn you: a) I'm really anal about patches I accept for
 dpkg. b) I'm not sure I like this approach. c) I'm really anal about
 accepting patches.

a) gotcha.
b) Hm... Is there anything wrong with it, or is this a general fear
   until code is written?
c) gotcha. 
 
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Re: New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop

2000-03-17 Thread Matthias Berse
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:17:09PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote:
 I have a laptop that uses the S3 Virge/MX video chip.
 
 I had this working well with the xserver-svga from slink.  I recently upgraded
 to 3.3.6-3 and found that the quality of the display became significantly
 worse.  I have not seen any reference to such a problem anywhere I have
 looked.  Since I don't have any idea how the xserver works, I don't have a
 clue about the cause of the problem, let alone how to solve it.

Try using the S3-server. That solved that issue for me on a Box with a
S3-864. I believe some of the S3 Cards are no longer fully supported
be the SVGA-Server. 

Brandon: Am I right?

Thanks,

Matthias
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Re: YAPFSR: Yet Another Proposal For Speeding Releases.

2000-03-17 Thread SCOTT FENTON
The only problem would be if a package like util-linux or libc6 was
auto-pulled because of this system.

Nicolás Lichtmaier wrote:
 
 It's freeze time, and we are all discussing the same things, we would all
 like to have a faster woody. I have a simple proposal for that:
 
  Let's keep the system we have now.
 
  But keeping the RC bug count low. A RC bug will only be permitted to stay
 for long if it is related to a release goal. And people must be working for
 cleaning it. Packages with RC bugs will be automatically removed after a
 couple of weeks. There could be an automatic bug horizon or something...
 
  Bye!
 
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Re: sendmail M4 to run DNS based spam filters per RCPT

2000-03-17 Thread Bill Jennings
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:34:12PM -0500, Elie Rosenblum wrote:
 
 On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 01:04:48AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
  Previously Scott Jennings wrote:
   I've written an M4 file for sendmail 3.9.3, and packaged it up as
   a debian package.
  
  Doesn't sendmail 8.10 already have something similar?
 
 It supports arbitrary DNS blacklists, and it has this feature:
 CONFIG: FEATURE(`delay_checks') delays check_mail and check_relay
 after check_rcpt and allows for exceptions from the checks.
 
 It does not, however, let you only move dnsbl's to post-rcpt, and it
 does not let you configure it on a per-user basis.

Configuration on a per-user basis is the main purpose of this hack.  On our
network, user [EMAIL PROTECTED] needs to be able to get mail from all sites, 
even
black-listed sites.  Also, certain other subscribers need to get business mail
from sites that refuse to repair their servers (e.g. best.com).

Bill Jennings
Oronet

(Scott's brother)



Re: cvs-makerepos

2000-03-17 Thread Torsten Landschoff
On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 01:30:15PM -0600, Douglas Bates wrote:
 The configuration script for cvs_1.10.7-6 mentions that you can create
 a repository with standard permissions using cvs-makerepos.  Is that a
 program or an option to cvs or ...?

cvs init

should do what you want. It is documented in the manpage but not very 
well. Should be fixed IMHO...

cu
Torsten

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Re: New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop

2000-03-17 Thread Oliver Elphick
Matthias Berse wrote:
  On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:17:09PM +, Oliver Elphick wrote:
   I have a laptop that uses the S3 Virge/MX video chip.
   
   I had this working well with the xserver-svga from slink.  I recently upgr
  aded
   to 3.3.6-3 and found that the quality of the display became significantly
   worse.  I have not seen any reference to such a problem anywhere I have
   looked.  Since I don't have any idea how the xserver works, I don't have a
   clue about the cause of the problem, let alone how to solve it.
  
  Try using the S3-server. That solved that issue for me on a Box with a
  S3-864. I believe some of the S3 Cards are no longer fully supported
  be the SVGA-Server. 
 
I tried the S3V server (it's a Virge chip) but that was much worse.

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Scheduling downtime for master, to do hardware maintance.

2000-03-17 Thread Adam Heath
Tomorrow, brainfood(formerly novare) will be moving master into a rack mount
case, out of its current mid-tower.  This is being done to have our rack
better organized, and to make it more efficient.

Minimum downtime is estimated at one hour, and should start between 3pm and
4pm UTC(9am and 10am local to master).

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Linuxcare dist comparison

2000-03-17 Thread Michael Meskes
I hope you all voted! :-)

http://www.linuxcare.com/products/prodmore.epl?PRODUCT_GROUP=Linux+Distributions

Michael
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new quota package

2000-03-17 Thread Michael Meskes
I have decided to not upload a new version of quota for frozen, since the
upstream is not sure when the 2.00 release will be finalized. In fact I
doubt he's even sure it ever will be. :-)

The only newer stable version 1.70 does not fix all bugs we already have
fixed in 1.65. So that does not make sense.

I will create a 2.00pre4 release for woody when I find time.

Since Heiko's mail address bounces I do adopt the package for the time
being. If anyone else interested in it feel free to send me an email.

Michael
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ssh master

2000-03-17 Thread michael
It seems master does not accept ssh connections. What's going on?

Michael

P.S.: Pleasee CC me on my private address on replies since I rely on ssh to
master for my debian mail.
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Re: ssh master

2000-03-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000 michael@fam-meskes.de wrote:

 It seems master does not accept ssh connections. What's going on?

No, just from you..

Mar 17 00:57:44 master named[1815]: bad referral (de.colt.net !
host.DE.COLT.net)
Mar 17 00:57:44 master sshd[4266]: warning: /etc/hosts.deny, line 15:
can't verify hostname: gethostbyname(h-62.96.162.190.host.de.colt.net) failed
Mar 17 00:57:44 master sshd[4266]: refused connect from 62.96.162.190
 
Jason



Re: Two maintainer entrys in bug reports by maintainer

2000-03-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Herbert Xu wrote:

 I think if you reupload your packages with the correct Maintainer field, then
 the bug system will fix itself.
Hmmm, that might fix the situation of two entries in the bug report
for woody but not for slink or potato bugs.
Moreover I consider it to be nonsense to upload a new package only
to replace one valid e-mail address by another valid e-mail address
without fixing any bugs (because there aren't any) or new upstream
versions.

Kind regards

 Andreas.



Re: Two maintainer entrys in bug reports by maintainer

2000-03-17 Thread Herbert Xu
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 08:25:47AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
 Hmmm, that might fix the situation of two entries in the bug report
 for woody but not for slink or potato bugs.

I don't think that the bug tracking system takes this into account at all.
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Re: Two maintainer entrys in bug reports by maintainer

2000-03-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Herbert Xu wrote:

 I don't think that the bug tracking system takes this into account at all.
Yes, and I wonder, if it should identify the maintainer regarding
to his name (in the moment the unique identification is possible
by first and last name) and not by e-mail adresses.  If it is just
the case for me this is no problem because I know the fact now.
But as I said I see the danger of unifixed bugs because the maintainer
does not notice it.

Kind regards

Andreas.



Re: YAPFSR: Yet Another Proposal For Speeding Releases.

2000-03-17 Thread Peter Makholm
Nicolás Lichtmaier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

  But keeping the RC bug count low. A RC bug will only be permitted to stay
 for long if it is related to a release goal. And people must be working for

Since we don't have release goals it would even be easy to implement.

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asclock replaces gnome-panel-data

2000-03-17 Thread Stuart Auchterlonie

So is there any good reason why asclock replaces gnome-panel-data ??

It seems to me that both could quite happily co-exist but the
interdependencies don't allow it...


Stuart



next week in Heidelberg

2000-03-17 Thread Philipp Frauenfelder
Hi,

I'm going to be in Heidelberg (Universitäts-Rechenzentrum) the
next week (20th to 24th of march). I'd like to meet some other
Debian developers to swap keys and have a beer in the evening.

Please mail me privately since I'm not subscribe to these lists.

Regards,
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Re: Turbo Vision non-free? (Was Re: Another packages wishlist)

2000-03-17 Thread Jeff Noxon
It seems like they've given up their rights by calling it public domain
in a public forum...

Debian needs a lawyer for things like this.

Regards

Jeff

On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 04:51:51PM -0800, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
 Damian M Gryski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 
 Turbo Vision is non-free?
  
 From http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,17285,00.html
 (last modified Sept 01/99)
  
  quote
 Question:
Where can I find the public domain version of Turbo Vision?
  
 Answer: 
It can be found at
ftp.inprise.com/pub/borlandcpp/devsupport/archive/turbovision/
  /quote
  
 Is Borland's page wrong?  You should mail them and get an official
 answer. (Isn't a FAQ on their site official enough?)
 
 It certainly isn't public domain. From one file (tview.cpp, inside
 source.zip, inside tv.cpp):
 
 /*
  *  Turbo Vision - Version 2.0
  *
  *  Copyright (c) 1994 by Borland International
  *  All Rights Reserved.
  *
  */
 
 That's about as non-free as you can get.



Re: next week in Heidelberg

2000-03-17 Thread Gregor Hoffleit
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:10:53AM +0100, Philipp Frauenfelder wrote:
 I'm going to be in Heidelberg (Universitäts-Rechenzentrum) the
 next week (20th to 24th of march). I'd like to meet some other
 Debian developers to swap keys and have a beer in the evening.

Fine. I can't yet suggest an exact date, but I should have time for a beer
any evening from Monday to Thursday. Are you still reading mails over the
weekend and next week, or how could I contact you ?

Gregor



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Re: Turbo Vision non-free? (Was Re: Another packages wishlist)

2000-03-17 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 04:51:51PM -0800, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
 /*
  *  Turbo Vision - Version 2.0
  *
  *  Copyright (c) 1994 by Borland International
  *  All Rights Reserved.
  *
  */
 
 That's about as non-free as you can get.

Only if there isn't a copyright file somewhere laying around, giving a
license to us. Probably contact borland for a license if there isn't.

Marcus

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Re: New version of xserver-svga gives poorer display on laptop

2000-03-17 Thread Joseph Heenan
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED]
  Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote:

 I have a laptop that uses the S3 Virge/MX video chip.
 
 I had this working well with the xserver-svga from slink.  I
 recently upgraded to 3.3.6-3 and found that the quality of the
 display became significantly worse.  I have not seen any reference
 to such a problem anywhere I have looked.  Since I don't have any
 idea how the xserver works, I don't have a clue about the cause of
 the problem, let alone how to solve it.
 
 
 The nature of the problem is this:
 There is a tendency for the image to be smeared to the right.  This is
 particularly noticeable with the mouse cursor, which trails a small comet
[snip]

I had /exactly/ this problem. I finally solved it by using xf86config
to generate a new configuration file. It worked fine after that (and,
not only that, but the display which was slightly flickerly with the
previous version is now rock solid).

My laptop is a Clevo 98 rebadged by Novatech in the UK - think the
screen is 12.1, it does 800x600 max, /proc/pci says the controller
is a 'S3 Inc. ViRGE/MX+MV (rec 3).. I can send you my XF86Config if
you think it might help.

Cheers,

Joseph


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Re: Bug#60573: general: wrong perms on /dev/null and /tmp in potato upgrade

2000-03-17 Thread Santiago Vila
reassign 60573 general
thanks

On Thu, 16 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote:

 reassign 60573 SantiagoVila
 thanks

Considering the way the bug system forwards reports to maintainers, a
bug should never be reassigned to a package which does not exist.

For what is worth, base-files does not change the permissions of /tmp,
as everybody able to do a simple

dpkg -c base-files_2.1.18.deb | grep tmp

may easily check if they were more interested in discovering the reason
for this than blaming others.

Some people uncompress tar files containing the current directory . 
under root on /tmp. To prevent this, some people have suggested to me in
the past that I make a chown and a chmod in base-files.postinst to fix
permissions in /tmp in case they were broken. This is wrong, because it
would hide the real problem (if any) and would make it more difficult to
discover.

Thanks.

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Re: Two maintainer entrys in bug reports by maintainer

2000-03-17 Thread Josip Rodin
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 08:25:47AM +0100, Andreas Tille wrote:
  I think if you reupload your packages with the correct Maintainer field, 
  then
  the bug system will fix itself.
 Hmmm, that might fix the situation of two entries in the bug report
 for woody but not for slink or potato bugs.
 Moreover I consider it to be nonsense to upload a new package only
 to replace one valid e-mail address by another valid e-mail address
 without fixing any bugs (because there aren't any) or new upstream
 versions.

The BTS takes the addresses from the `Maintainers' file, which you can
find under indices/ directory on each FTP mirror. I'm not sure, but it
would seem logical that the newest available package entry gets in the
file.

Alternatively, ask [EMAIL PROTECTED] to change it manually.

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Re: Potato and a half?

2000-03-17 Thread Yoda Yoyodyne

Potato + .5 sounds like a good idea to me!  Right
now I don't want to wait a single day more for the new

Debian release.  IMHO the release cycle is way to 
slow, I would like to see more frequent updates.

On some newer machines I had to install Red Hat, since

slink was too backlevel, and I had not even known that
there was a slink+.5 --  It is carefully not mentioned
anywhere on the Debian site...

I really like Debian, both for technical and
philosophical reasons, but when it gets behind more 
than a year behind up to date versions, and doesn't
support important hardware, that's unacceptable. 
(And no, I don't want to roll my own kernel from the 
source -- I do this for experimental boards, but the
beauty of distributions is that I don't have to
worry about interaction testing for my regular
machines...)

Roll out potato ASAP, and follow with an upgrade which
does the new kernel, X, and apache as soon as they are
out. 

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Re: ITP: xzgv

2000-03-17 Thread Andreas Tille
On Sun, 6 Feb 2000, David Starner wrote:

 Honestly, I found the interface of ImageMagick to be too clumsy
 to just view pictures. Until I grabbed xzgv out of Incoming,
 xv was the least clumsy graphic viewer interface. The authors
 of xzgv have produced an X viewer that I can be happy with.
There was a long time since this ITP.  Do you still plan to package
it?  Unfortunately I didn't found it in the list of GTK+
applications under www.gtk.org to have a look at it.

Kind regards

 Andreas.



Anyone intents to package Guppy

2000-03-17 Thread Andreas Tille
Hello,

I will not have the time to package Guppi (http://www.gnome.org/guppi)
but it seems worth packaging.  Any volunteer?

Happy weekend

 Andreas.




Re: ITP: dvipdfm - A DVI to PDF translator

2000-03-17 Thread Brian Mays
Jason Gunthorpe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 But the comment says the whole story, it is compatible with standard
 Adobe fonts, aka times which is what I had the problem with.

Jason - You would think so.  Nevertheless, try it; it works.  Therefore, I 
must assume that the comment is incorrect.

- Brian




Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 17, 2000

2000-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
severity 59860 fixed
close 60489

thanks

 Package: emacs19 (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Mark W. Eichin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   59860  [NMU] Emacs19 can't be built from source

I think this might be fixed now from Joey's NMU.

 Package: kaffe (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Ean R. Schuessler [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   59420  kaffe_1:1.0.5e-0.3(frozen): bad register names on m68k
   59575  kaffe: jit3 not supported on sparc build

I've NMU'd a package which fixes both of these, last night.

 Package: libpam-modules (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   60287  libpam-modules: Spurious Parsing Error from pam_limits.so

Hmm, forgot about this one :) I'll upload a fixed package today.

 Package: mkhybrid (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Chris Lawrence [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   60119  mkhybrid: patch required for making sparc bootable CD's
   60489  mkhybrid: patch required for making sparc bootable CD's

The duplication was my fault. I resent the original patch and forgot that
[EMAIL PROTECTED] was in the To. I've closed the second one above.

 Package: prc-tools (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Stephen Zander [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   51647  prc-tools: fails building on sparc

This is going to either require me to port some stuff from gcc272 into
this package, or make it just ignore sparc in the architecure field. This
late in the game for potato, I think I'll choose the latter and make an
NMU (if the maintainer doesn't mind).

 Package: rscheme (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Rob Browning [EMAIL PROTECTED]
 [REMOVE] This package can be removed if it is not fixed.
   53734  rscheme: build fails if there is no info about the packages

I'll NMU this. It will take all of two seconds to fix, and the maintainer
has pretty much ignored it.

 Package: xview (debian/main)
 Maintainer: Martin Buck [EMAIL PROTECTED]
   60536  xview: compile expects sparc to be sunos

I'll probably NMU this one aswell.

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Intent to package: distmp3

2000-03-17 Thread Robert Woodcock
Hi, distmp3 is a tool to allow encoding of mp3's across a network.
It consists of a client perl script and a server perl script.

http://wlug.westbo.se/medlprog/distmp3-0.1.5.tar.gz

Currently it has no license but I've contacted the upstream author and he
will be doing another release shortly that places it under the GPL.

Because it requires an mp3 encoder to function, it will go in contrib.

Once it's there, I can make abcde use it transparently :)
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Processed: Re: Bug#60573: general: wrong perms on /dev/null and /tmp in potato upgrade

2000-03-17 Thread Debian Bug Tracking System
Processing commands for [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

 reassign 60573 general
Bug#60573: general: wrong perms on /dev/null and /tmp in potato upgrade
Bug reassigned from package `general' to `general'.

 thanks
Stopping processing here.

Please contact me if you need assistance.

Darren Benham
(administrator, Debian Bugs database)



Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-17 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
[can anybody with knowledgs of the internals of dpkg/apt take a look at
this?]

On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 10:13:52AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
 
 Fabrizio If you downgrade man-db (I'm reuploading 2.3.13 so
 Fabrizio you'll find it in Incoming or Incoming/REJECT) and then
 Fabrizio re-apt it, will it fail?
 
 Anyway, have a look at the following:
 
 lyell:~# apt-get upgrade
 ..
 Unpacking replacement man-db ...
 dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
 dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/man-db_2.3.14_i386.deb 
 (--unpack):
  subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
   Building manual page index in background.
 Errors were encountered while processing:
  /var/cache/apt/archives/man-db_2.3.14_i386.deb
 E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
 
 
 We have success! Problem duplicated!

Great.
As you already have the old deb, can you please repete the test, but
using dpkg -i instead of apt-get (to re-upgrade I mean ... I don't think
apt-get can downgrade).

That is just to narrow the search of the package to reassign the 4 bugs
:-)

But seriously, it's quite clear that something in this man-db package
it's triggering this ugly behaviour.
So, what's changed between 2.3.13 and 2.3.14 ?

 -rwsr-xr-x root/root 82752 ./usr/lib/man-db/man
 -rwxr-xr-x root/root 82752 ./usr/lib/man-db/man
---
 -rwsr-xr-x root/root 66012 ./usr/lib/man-db/mandb
 -rwxr-xr-x root/root 66012 ./usr/lib/man-db/mandb
---
 -rw-r--r-- root/root 9008 ./usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz
 -rw-r--r-- root/root 9006 ./usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz
---
 -rw-r--r-- root/root 9986 ./usr/share/man/it/man1/man.1.gz
 -rw-r--r-- root/root 9984 ./usr/share/man/it/man1/man.1.gz
---
 -rw-r--r-- root/root 14485 ./usr/share/doc/man-db/changelog.Debian.gz
 -rw-r--r-- root/root 14617 ./usr/share/doc/man-db/changelog.Debian.gz


  size 332058 bytes: control archive= 4325 bytes.
  size 332200 bytes: control archive= 4320 bytes.
---
  792 bytes,20 lines  control  
  816 bytes,20 lines  control  
---
  Version: 2.3.13
  Version: 2.3.14
---
  Depends: groff ( 1.15-2) | jgroff ( 1.15), libc6 (= 2.1.2)
  Depends: groff ( 1.15-2) | jgroff ( 1.15), libc6 (= 2.1.2), libdb2 (= 
 1:2.4.14-7)
---

Another thing that is changed is inside the md5sum file:
 a79d0fb7542beef4281c7d754707bac0  usr/bin/wrapper
 bc5ae3db0572b49aa938538f37c4147b  usr/bin/man
 bc5ae3db0572b49aa938538f37c4147b  usr/bin/mandb
 f9b7b6014efe84c9cea791c6e2b2f568  usr/bin/wrapper
 f9b7b6014efe84c9cea791c6e2b2f568  usr/bin/man
 f9b7b6014efe84c9cea791c6e2b2f568  usr/bin/mandb

In version 2.3.13 the md5sum of /usr/bin/man and /usr/bin/mandb is the
md5sum of the shell scripts files that are in the .deb and are removed
inside postinst, while in the 2.3.14 md5sum its listed the digest of the
files that are installed after the postinst (hardlinks to
/usr/bin/wrapper), and not the digests of the files shipped inside the
.deb.

Does anybody know if this could be the trigger for this ugly stuff?


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Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:47:16PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
 [can anybody with knowledgs of the internals of dpkg/apt take a look at
 this?]
 
  Unpacking replacement man-db ...
  dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
  dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/man-db_2.3.14_i386.deb 
  (--unpack):
   subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
Building manual page index in background.
  Errors were encountered while processing:
   /var/cache/apt/archives/man-db_2.3.14_i386.deb
  E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)

This looks like a system problem. Looks like gzip is getting killed (the
Broken Pipe). What kernel is this person running?

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Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-17 Thread Jacob Kuntz
i experienced this bug on two seperate systems, both fresh installs of
potato from the netboot test cd on cdimage.debian.org. one a k6/266 and the
other a k6-2/350. i remember at least one other person reporting the same
bug on this list the morning after i noticed it.

ben, any way we could get dpkg-deb to print the signal that killed it's
child?

Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 05:47:16PM +0200, Fabrizio Polacco wrote:
  [can anybody with knowledgs of the internals of dpkg/apt take a look at
  this?]
  
   Unpacking replacement man-db ...
   dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe)
   dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/man-db_2.3.14_i386.deb 
   (--unpack):
subprocess dpkg-deb --fsys-tarfile returned error exit status 2
 Building manual page index in background.
   Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/man-db_2.3.14_i386.deb
   E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1)
 
 This looks like a system problem. Looks like gzip is getting killed (the
 Broken Pipe). What kernel is this person running?
 
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Re: sendmail M4 to run DNS based spam filters per RCPT

2000-03-17 Thread brian moore
On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:24:52PM -0800, Bill Jennings wrote:
 On Thu, Mar 16, 2000 at 08:34:12PM -0500, Elie Rosenblum wrote:
  
  On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 01:04:48AM +0100, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
   Previously Scott Jennings wrote:
I've written an M4 file for sendmail 3.9.3, and packaged it up as
a debian package.
   
   Doesn't sendmail 8.10 already have something similar?
  
  It supports arbitrary DNS blacklists, and it has this feature:
  CONFIG: FEATURE(`delay_checks') delays check_mail and check_relay
  after check_rcpt and allows for exceptions from the checks.
  
  It does not, however, let you only move dnsbl's to post-rcpt, and it
  does not let you configure it on a per-user basis.
 
 Configuration on a per-user basis is the main purpose of this hack.  On our
 network, user [EMAIL PROTECTED] needs to be able to get mail from all 
 sites, even
 black-listed sites.  Also, certain other subscribers need to get business mail
 from sites that refuse to repair their servers (e.g. best.com).

Yep, we run something very much like the above here.  Users can
customize their settings (with an additional hack of my own doing for
my own person list) with a handy CGI.

I would very much like to see the above in Debian.  It'll make it a lot
easier to move off my existing Solaris setup and will allow more sites
to give control to their users, where it should be.  (Yeah, yeah, but Sparc
Linux was barely useful in '96 and I can't afford the downtime to format
for Debian now but I've also got 'buy new machines' on my wish list
:))

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Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 11:58:16AM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
 i experienced this bug on two seperate systems, both fresh installs of
 potato from the netboot test cd on cdimage.debian.org. one a k6/266 and the
 other a k6-2/350. i remember at least one other person reporting the same
 bug on this list the morning after i noticed it.
 
 ben, any way we could get dpkg-deb to print the signal that killed it's
 child?
 

try running:

dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir

If that fails too, then add strace -o dpkg-deb.out to the start of that
line and send me the dpkg-deb.out file.

Ben

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Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 17, 2000

2000-03-17 Thread Stephen Zander
 Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
 Package: prc-tools (debian/main) Maintainer: Stephen Zander
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 51647 prc-tools: fails building on sparc

Ben This is going to either require me to port some stuff from
Ben gcc272 into this package, or make it just ignore sparc in the
Ben architecure field. This late in the game for potato, I think
Ben I'll choose the latter and make an NMU (if the maintainer
Ben doesn't mind).

I have a SPARC here but haven't had an opportunity to build prc-tools
on it.  Go ahead and NMU the sparc architecture out, Ben.  There's a
new, egce-based release out anyway; I'll concentrate on packaging it.

-- 
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scimitar at me they'd put me away



Re: Release-critical Bugreport for March 17, 2000

2000-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 10:09:07AM -0800, Stephen Zander wrote:
  Ben == Ben Collins [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
  Package: prc-tools (debian/main) Maintainer: Stephen Zander
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] 51647 prc-tools: fails building on sparc
 
 Ben This is going to either require me to port some stuff from
 Ben gcc272 into this package, or make it just ignore sparc in the
 Ben architecure field. This late in the game for potato, I think
 Ben I'll choose the latter and make an NMU (if the maintainer
 Ben doesn't mind).
 
 I have a SPARC here but haven't had an opportunity to build prc-tools
 on it.  Go ahead and NMU the sparc architecture out, Ben.  There's a
 new, egce-based release out anyway; I'll concentrate on packaging it.

Excellent, since this is going to be irrelevant for woody, I'll make it a
frozen only upload.

Thanks for the response.

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Re: Anyone intents to package Guppy

2000-03-17 Thread Bas Zoetekouw
Thus spake Andreas Tille ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):

 I will not have the time to package Guppi (http://www.gnome.org/guppi)
 but it seems worth packaging.  Any volunteer?

Accoring to http://www.gnome.org/guppi/#get, Cesar Talon
[EMAIL PROTECTED] has already packaged it. The deb is at
ftp://ftp.gnome.org/pub/guppi/Debian

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Bug#60622: general: Users with shell /bin/false are not logged out correctly

2000-03-17 Thread kr
Package: general
Version: 2308
Severity: normal

I have created a new user called reim with a shell /bin/false
(included into /etc/shells, but even if not, same effect) to prevent
the user from login. If that user logs in via a getty the user will 
be logged out correctly immediately after the login. But if the user 
logs in via the login command, the user is not COMPLETELY logged out. 
If I type 'who' I still can see that user is logged in, but that can't 
be not true. When I close the console, where the user has tried to 
login via the login command, the user will be logged out correctly. 
Now another situtation: If I use the login command in konsole under 
KDE the user will NEVER be logged out completely, even if I close 
konsole. The effect is, that the user reim is logged in the whole 
time, I can't log him out because he has no shell or other 
programs running. And I can't delete the user because the 
systems thinks he is still logged in.

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Re: ITP: dvipdfm - A DVI to PDF translator

2000-03-17 Thread Jason Gunthorpe

On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Brian Mays wrote:

  But the comment says the whole story, it is compatible with standard
  Adobe fonts, aka times which is what I had the problem with.
 
 Jason - You would think so.  Nevertheless, try it; it works.  Therefore, I 
 must assume that the comment is incorrect.

In that case, this is very exciting :

Jason



Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-17 Thread Jacob Kuntz
Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
 try running:
 
 dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir
 
 If that fails too, then add strace -o dpkg-deb.out to the start of that
 line and send me the dpkg-deb.out file.

i don't have a 'broken' archive any longer, but i did try dpkg --fsystarfile
(or whatever it was that was failing) and the tarball unrolled fine.

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Re: Bug#60399: crashes on installation

2000-03-17 Thread Ben Collins
On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 02:05:44PM -0500, Jacob Kuntz wrote:
 Ben Collins ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
  try running:
  
  dpkg-deb --extract man.deb /tmp/tmpdir
  
  If that fails too, then add strace -o dpkg-deb.out to the start of that
  line and send me the dpkg-deb.out file.
 
 i don't have a 'broken' archive any longer, but i did try dpkg --fsystarfile
 (or whatever it was that was failing) and the tarball unrolled fine.

That simply produces a tarfile. I was suggesting to actually extract,
which unpacks the tarball itself.

Anyway, if the problem is gone, it's going to be hard to track it down.

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ITP: lvs-gui

2000-03-17 Thread Stephen Zander

This is my intent to package the lvs-gui code written by Horn at VA
for their web-server farm demo.  Unless someone else already did it of
course. :)

URL:http://ultramonkey.sourceforge.net/ if you care.

-- 
Stephen

If I claimed I was emporer just cause some moistened bint lobbed a
scimitar at me they'd put me away