Bug#339400: Acknowledgement (tail -f broken on 2.4 kernel)

2006-01-07 Thread dean gaudet
hey so i've upgraded to a locally built 2.6.14.4 ... and tail -f is still broken with that kernel. i'm wondering now what's different between debian 2.6.x kernels and my locally built one (it's on a production server though so i can't experiment too much). anyhow i'm really surprised nobody

Bug#339400: Info received (was Bug#339400: Acknowledgement (tail -f broken on 2.4 kernel))

2006-01-07 Thread dean gaudet
aha! i figured out what's going on... it's not a 2.4 vs. 2.6 kernel difference... the difference is that on one of my hosts all of my log files have the append only attribute. check this out: /tmp# dpkg -s coreutils ... Version: 5.93-5 /tmp# touch append_only /tmp# tail -f append_only /tmp#

Bug#338200: root raid should use mdadm --config=partitions

2005-11-08 Thread dean gaudet
Package: initrd-tools Version: 0.1.84 currently for a root on md raid mkinitrd does something like this: mdadm -A /dev/md3 -R -u 2b3a5b77:c7b4ab81:a2b8322a:db5c4e88 /dev/sdb4 /dev/sda4 however this has the problem that it will require the root raid devices to always reside at /dev/sda4 and

Bug#334911: freshclam should have a timeout

2005-10-20 Thread dean gaudet
Package: clamav-freshclam Version: 0.87-1 a couple times a month i find a freshclam which has been stuck on a read from fd 4 for a few days... fd 4 is its network socket, and it seems to be stuck in the middle of a tcp session, probably the other end has disappeared. there really should be an

Bug#335235: spell hangs forever

2005-10-22 Thread dean gaudet
Package: spell Version: 1.0-15 try this: % echo a b c a % spell a it hangs forever... i dunno, but the source code looks like it has some confusion with pin vs. pout... the patch below seems to fix it. -dean --- spell-1.0/spell.c.dg2005-10-22 11:26:24.0 -0700 +++

Bug#339400: tail -f broken on 2.4 kernel

2005-11-15 Thread dean gaudet
Package: coreutils Version: 5.93-2 you can't use O_NONBLOCK on files in 2.4... and so tail -f is broken because it apparently requires that now as of 5.93: tail: /var/log/apache/access_log: cannot change nonblocking mode: Operation not permitted i don't think that should be a fatal error (or

Bug#339400: Acknowledgement (tail -f broken on 2.4 kernel)

2005-11-15 Thread dean gaudet
ugh this whole blocking optimization stuff in tail_forever just seems broken... i'm not sure the correct fix, but the following fix seems to do the job for me. i've tested doing tail -f and -F on one and multiple files on 2.6 and 2.4 ... i've done other nonsense tests like tail -f on stdin,

Bug#387690: libcurl test build-depends on bc

2006-09-15 Thread dean gaudet
Package: rtorrent Version: 0.6.1-1 scripts/checks.m4: ok=`echo ibase=16; if($hex_ver=$check_hex) $hex_ver else 0 | bc` needs bc installed... it's there in 0.6.2 upstream as well. just for pedantry could you add a build-depends: bc? thanks -dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#398027: sensors_ temp regex fix

2006-11-11 Thread dean gaudet
Package: munin-node Version: 1.2.5-1 for the exact right length of sensors name there's no spaces following the colon... for example: % sensors |grep Temp CPU2_Temp:+39.25 C (low =+0 C, high = +90 C) CPU1_Temp:+42.00 C (low =+0 C, high = +90 C) i fixed all three regex even

Bug#398310: don't assemble all arrays on install

2006-11-12 Thread dean gaudet
Package: mdadm Version: 2.5.5-1 Severity: grave it's dangerous to generate an mdadm.conf and start running arrays automatically at install time! i nearly got bit by this. i marked this grave because there's a potential for data loss with the current install scripts. i had 4 disks which i had

Bug#398312: INITRDSTART='none' doesn't work

2006-11-12 Thread dean gaudet
Package: mdadm Version: 2.5.5-1 Severity: grave even though i have INITRDSTART='none' in my /etc/default/mdadm and rebuilt the initrd, it still goes and does array discovery at boot time. this is marked grave because it can cause dataloss if drives with stale superblocks are put together in an

Bug#398312: INITRDSTART='none' doesn't work

2006-11-13 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, martin f krafft wrote: severity 398312 important tags 398312 unreproducible moreinfo thanks even though i have INITRDSTART='none' in my /etc/default/mdadm and rebuilt the initrd, it still goes and does array discovery at boot time. piper:/tmp/cdt.d.Ns8889# grep

Bug#398312: Re: Bug#398312: INITRDSTART='none' doesn't work

2006-11-13 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.11.13.1107 +0100]: which causes the is_true() in info() to return 1 which causes the set -e to terminate the script. What shell are you using? my SHELL=/bin/zsh, but that won't affect the script

Bug#398310: Re: Bug#398310: don't assemble all arrays on install

2006-11-13 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.11.13.1116 +0100]: right, now i know that i should create an /etc/default/mdadm *before* i install mdadm... because unlike other packages, mdadm does potentially dangerous things just by installing

Bug#398347: hooks should respect run-parts naming conventions

2006-11-13 Thread dean gaudet
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.85a the run_scripts() function should respect the same naming conventions as run-parts(8) ... in particular if my editor creates foo~, foo.bak, .foo.swp files run_scripts() will try to run them. ditto for foo,v. run_scripts() should also not attempt to

Bug#398310: don't assemble all arrays on install

2006-11-13 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, martin f krafft wrote: severity 398310 important retitle 398310 let user choose when to start which array tags 398310 confirmed help thanks also sprach dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006.11.13.0230 +0100]: i had 4 disks which i had experimented with sw raid10

Bug#394319: geoipupdate vulnerability

2006-10-20 Thread dean gaudet
Package: geoip Version: 1.3.17-1 the patch below has been accepted into the upstream repository, and will appear next release... however it may be worth updating the debian package in the interim. -dean - Original message - From: dean gaudet Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2006 18:50:28 -0700 (PDT

Bug#396686: new upstream

2006-11-02 Thread dean gaudet
Package: ddrescue Version: 1.10-1 there's a new upstream 1.12... which makes O_DIRECT actually work properly amidst other things. it'd be cool if you could update the debian package. thanks -dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#391351: memcached should default to non-root user

2006-10-06 Thread dean gaudet
Package: memcached Version: 1.1.12-1 seems like the safest default install would be to run as a non-root user... (and i was gonna say listen on 127.0.0.1 but someone beat me to it). thanks -dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Bug#387690: libcurl test build-depends on bc

2006-09-20 Thread dean gaudet
if you apt-get remove bc you get this error during configure of rtorrent source package: checking for curl = 7.12.0... ./configure: line 13046: bc: command not found 7.15.5 now look at the code in scripts/checks.m4: ver=`curl-config --version | sed -e s/libcurl //g`

Bug#387690: libcurl test build-depends on bc

2006-09-20 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 dean gaudet escribió: if you apt-get remove bc you get this error during configure of rtorrent source package: ^^ I'm sorry but I doesn't see this error: split paty:/home

Bug#389804: mii-tool gigabit support. (fwd)

2006-09-27 Thread dean gaudet
... thanks! -dean -- Forwarded message -- Date: Wed, 27 Sep 2006 12:15:08 -0700 (PDT) From: dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Stephen Hemminger [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Jeff Garzik [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], netdev@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: mii-tool gigabit support. On Tue

Bug#389875: mixed vga+serial blanking problems

2006-09-28 Thread dean gaudet
Package: console-tools Version: 1:0.2.3dbs-65 the various /etc/console-tools/config settings aren't applied to the vga device if i boot my system with console=ttyS0,115200 command-line option. now i know... you're thinking you said the console is serial, not vga... but then, that begs the

Bug#390038: this is caused by the use of /sbin/update-grub

2006-12-03 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 3 Dec 2006, Frans Pop wrote: On Sunday 03 December 2006 22:34, dean gaudet wrote: the linux-image .postrm script is (through some mechanism) invoking /sbin/update-grub. /sbin/update-grub gives a warning now: You shouldn't call /sbin/update-grub. Please call /usr/sbin/update

Bug#381619: debconf 1.5.3 breaks apache install

2006-08-05 Thread dean gaudet
Package: debconf Version: 1.5.3 apache-1.3.34-2 package can't be configured when debconf 1.5.3 is on the box... works fine when 1.5.2 is on the box... tail of set -x output looks like so: + db_set apache/server-name arctic.org + _db_cmd 'SET apache/server-name' arctic.org + printf '%s\n' 'SET

Bug#382841: segfault with libcurl 7.15.5

2006-08-13 Thread dean gaudet
Package: rtorrent Version: 0.6.0-1 this patch was extracted from upstream svn. it fixes a segfault which occurs with libcurl 7.15.5. it tends to hit me when i have lots of torrents going. -dean Index: src/core/curl_stack.cc ===

Bug#339400: acknowledged by developer (Not a bug)

2006-01-18 Thread dean gaudet
notice that tail -f works fine when the file is not marked append only... now don't ask me why O_NONBLOCK is denied on append only files... but it is... I take it that there is no bug in the tail program, then. there is absolutely a bug in the tail program... this was not a problem in

Bug#493635: really ignore /etc/network/options

2008-08-03 Thread dean gaudet
package: netbase version: 4.33 spot the bug in /etc/init.d/networking: process_options() { [ -e /etc/network/options ] || return 0 log_warning_msg /etc/network/options still exists and it will be IGNORED! Read README.Debian of netbase. } there should be a return 0 after the

Bug#495820: FTBS: make[1]: *** No rule to make target `txt'. Stop.

2008-08-20 Thread dean gaudet
Package: iproute Version: 20080725-2 i did: sudo apt-get build-dep iproute apt-get source iproute cd iproute-20080725-2 fakeroot ./debian/rules binary and it fails: ... /usr/share/texmf-texlive/dvips/base/texps.pro /usr/share/texmf-texlive/dvips/base/special.pro

Bug#282941: ntp-server: Please run ntpd as non-root

2005-02-10 Thread dean gaudet
one further change to consider -- run /etc/cron.daily/ntp-server as user ntp instead of root. maybe stick a line like this in it: [ `/usr/bin/id -un` = ntp ] || exec /bin/su -s /bin/sh ntp $0 (or use /etc/cron.d/ntp-server which can specify a username) -dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Bug#295421: annoying reversion to posix behaviour in 2.8.1-10

2005-02-15 Thread dean gaudet
Package: diff Version: 2.8.1-10 as of 2.8.1-10 diff has reverted to braindamaged posix behaviour: % diff -u0 a1 a2 diff: `-0' option is obsolete; use `-U 0' diff: Try `diff --help' for more information. zsh: exit 2 diff -u0 a1 a2 if i revert to 2.8.1-9 it works fine. i didn't see anything

Bug#305714: gethostby*.getanswer: ... got type 39

2005-04-21 Thread dean gaudet
Package: libc6 Version: 2.3.2.ds1-20 i've started seeing entries like this in my syslog: Apr 21 09:48:06 twinlark curl: gethostby*.getanswer: asked for ethereal.net.nyud.net IN A, got type 39 type 39 is a DNAME record http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2672.html, and DNAMEs are apparently in use by

Bug#297510: elinks problems with non-tty stdin

2005-02-28 Thread dean gaudet
Package: elinks Version: 0.10.2-2 i have a cronjob which runs links -dump http://foo/; ... it worked fine until this week when i upgraded and started getting this: ELinks: Permission denied i tried strace and it said this: open(/dev/stdin, O_RDONLY|O_NOCTTY) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied) i

Bug#444364: please stop rewriting all the initrds

2007-09-27 Thread dean gaudet
Package: mdadm Version: 2.6.2-2 it is EXEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS to replace EVERY SINGLE initrd when mdadm is installed/upgraded. you pretty much guarantee that any problem will produce an unbootable system -- especially if root is on md. as has just occured to me. in the past in this situation

Bug#446988: must compile -fno-strict-aliasing

2007-10-17 Thread dean gaudet
Package: libtorrent10 Version: 0.11.8-1 between 0.11.7 and 0.11.8-1 i started getting regular crashes starting with: ** glibc detected *** /usr/bin/rtorrent: double free or corruption (!prev): 0x0b0952b0 *** this is on amd64. i looked at the known issues page and it requires

Bug#446988: Acknowledgement (must compile -fno-strict-aliasing)

2007-10-18 Thread dean gaudet
damn... -fno-strict-aliasing isn't enough to fix the crash i started seeing in 0.11.8. i built my own package, but saw a crash within 24h. -dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#446988: Acknowledgement (must compile -fno-strict-aliasing)

2007-10-20 Thread dean gaudet
i rebuilt 0.11.7-1 from source (fetched from snapshot.debian.org) and it seems not to be crashing (crashes were occuring in under a day before and i've had 0.11.7-1 going for 2 days)... so this really is a 0.11.7-1 - 0.11.8-1 regression. i'm going to upgrade my gcc/etc to latest bleeding edge

Bug#447493: zsh missing in /etc/shells

2007-10-21 Thread dean gaudet
Package: zsh Version: 4.3.4-23 upgrading from 4.3.4-19 to 4.3.4-23 caused zsh to be removed from /etc/shells... i have a nightly cron job which looks for users with invalid shells and it picked up this change last night after i did the aforementioned upgrade yesterday. -dean -- To

Bug#447497: pipe viewer does not wrap long lines

2007-10-21 Thread dean gaudet
Package: alpine Version: 0.+dfsg-1 this is a pine 4.64 - alpine 0. regression. when a message with long lines is piped through an external command the lines are truncated. i see no options for scrolling the display or avoiding the truncation. note that regular message viewing wraps

Bug#444364: please stop rewriting all the initrds

2007-09-28 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 28 Sep 2007, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007.09.28.0230 +0100]: it is EXEPTIONALLY DANGEROUS to replace EVERY SINGLE initrd when mdadm is installed/upgraded. Please STOP SCREAMING and look at the existing bugs before you reply new ones

Bug#406925: airmon-ng script depends on wireless-tools

2007-01-14 Thread dean gaudet
Package: aircrack-ng Version: 1:0.6.2-6 the aircrack-ng should Depend on the wireless-tools package... since the airmon-ng script requires iwpriv/iwconfig. thanks -dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#406949: reduce cron job noise

2007-01-15 Thread dean gaudet
Package: htdig Version: 1:3.2.0b6-3 i'd rather not get this message every day from cron: /etc/cron.daily/htdig: /etc/cron.daily/htdig: line 22: 1723 Terminated lockfile-touch /var/run/htdig.cron the patch below should quiet things. -dean --- etc/cron.daily/htdig.dpkg-orig

Bug#386357: please use -DUNALIGNED_OK on amd64

2007-01-01 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, Mark Brown wrote: On Wed, Sep 06, 2006 at 05:51:39PM -0700, dean gaudet wrote: note that this define wasn't necessary on 32-bit x86 because there's custom 32-bit assembly which uses unaligneds even more aggressively than the C code does even when given UNALIGNED_OK

Bug#386357: please use -DUNALIGNED_OK on amd64

2007-01-01 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 1 Jan 2007, dean gaudet wrote: and i can't even reproduce my results... here's the averages of the user cpu seconds for 10 runs of minizip -9o a.zip linux-2.6.19.tar: baseline -DUNALIGNED_OK k8 revF26.62 26.59 core2 28.43 28.44 you know, gzip -9

Bug#315547: [patch] stop fd leak in libnss-ldap

2007-01-08 Thread dean gaudet
i believe these 3 bugs are the same problem. when the ldap server closes the connection during a response, libnss-ldap doesn't really notice at all... it returns an error code to the caller but doesn't pay attention to the error code itself. then nscd (or whatever other caller is involved)

Bug#409587: start earlier, stop later

2007-02-03 Thread dean gaudet
Package: watchdog Version: 5.2.6-6 i think watchdog should be amongst the earliest to start services... who knows if some startup script will hang. starting at 89 seems pretty late. and... i'd really like to use nowayout=1, but if i do that then it causes some serious cramps in my shutdown

Bug#410496: build-dep tetex-bin, ps2eps

2007-02-10 Thread dean gaudet
Package: gsl Version: 1.8-3 i did an apt-get build-dep libgsl0-dev prior to trying to build from source... and it mostly succeeded except its looking for tex, dvips, and ps2eps binaries. so it seems gsl should Build-Depends: tetex-bin, ps2eps thanks -dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#410496: build-dep tetex-bin, ps2eps

2007-02-11 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote: Which distribution do you use: testing or unstable? I'd be surprised if there had been 'unannounced' changes in these lately. unstable Installing the build-deps ... - Considering tetex-extra - Trying tetex-extra - Considering texinfo

Bug#414542: suspend and vigr/vipw

2007-03-12 Thread dean gaudet
Package: shadow Version: 1:4.0.18.1-7 try doing vigr/vipw and then ^Z... and fg... sometimes nastiness happens right away, sometimes it seems to take a few ^Z/fg cycles. grep -r for WUNTRACED you'll see the vipw.c code differs from the other instances... patch below. -dean p.s. i use zsh..

Bug#355178: [#355178] unable to reproduce the 4GB librsync1 problem

2006-11-18 Thread dean gaudet
On Sat, 18 Nov 2006, Michael Prokop wrote: So can you please provide the necessary steps to reproduce the problem? iirc it doesn't happen on every file 4GB. try between a 32-bit and a 64-bit host -- that's when it was hitting me the worst. -dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#399271: post(8) segfaulting

2006-11-18 Thread dean gaudet
Package: nmh Version: 1.2-1 in 1.2-1 post(8) is segfaulting (amd64)... doesn't happen with same config on 1.1-release-4. if i get a chance i'll grab a gdb backtrace... but maybe this strace will help. oh maybe my mts.conf will help too: # grep -ve '^#.*' -e '^$' /etc/nmh/mts.conf mts: smtp

Bug#429123: please update/request removal of your package

2007-06-15 Thread dean gaudet
go ahead and remove it. this package does not support apache2. (i might be listed as maintainer but i didn't upload it and know nothing about being a debian package maintainer.) -dean On Fri, 15 Jun 2007, Gerfried Fuchs wrote: Package: libapache-mod-iptos Severity: serious Version: 1.1-1

Bug#429531: chan_read_failed log spam

2007-06-18 Thread dean gaudet
Package: openssh-server Version: 1:4.6p1-1 4.6p1 generates *lots* of log spam like so: Jun 18 00:16:23 twinlark sshd[18923]: error: channel 0: chan_read_failed for istate 3 Jun 18 00:16:23 twinlark sshd[18923]: error: channel 0: chan_read_failed for istate 3 there's a fix upstream:

Bug#399271: nmh strcasecmp problems

2007-05-22 Thread dean gaudet
i've finally tracked this down: nmh code assumes strcasecmp accepts NULL arguments. for portability reasons sbr/strcasecmp.c defines str[n]casecmp functions which do accept NULL arguments. /usr/include/string.h declares strcasecmp: extern int strcasecmp (__const char *__s1, __const char

Bug#433135: source clean rule fails

2007-07-14 Thread dean gaudet
Package: spamassassin Version: 3.2.1-1 the following fails: apt-get source spamassassin cd spamassassin-3.2.1 fakeroot ./debian/rules binary fakeroot ./debian/rules clean because it can't deapply 10_change_config_paths ... for one thing 10_change_config_paths includes an INSTALL.orig...

Bug#329989: snd_usb_audio unknown symbols

2005-09-24 Thread dean gaudet
Package: linux-image-2.6.12-1-686-smp Version: 2.6.12-7 usb audio worked in -6... but as of -7 i'm getting this in dmesg when the module is inserted: snd_usb_audio: Unknown symbol __compound_literal.170 snd_usb_audio: Unknown symbol __compound_literal.89 snd_usb_audio: Unknown symbol

Bug#331173: failure if /etc/environment *doesn't exist*

2005-10-01 Thread dean gaudet
Package: libpam-modules Version: 0.79-2 if /etc/environment does NOT exist then logins/etc fail with a pam_setcred critical error. (this is NOT a repeat of the other bugs related to /etc/environment just fixed in 0.79-2 :) -dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Bug#318826: libpam-umask encounters a Segmentation fault - preventing login

2005-07-18 Thread dean gaudet
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005, Michael Berg wrote: The latest libpam-umask (0.02) encounters a SIGSEGV (Segmentation fault) this is because of some unfortunate code that i don't even think should be in the module... it's a result of the per-user umask support. it segfaults for any user which does

Bug#318826: libpam-umask encounters a Segmentation fault - preventing login

2005-07-18 Thread dean gaudet
here's my patch. sorry it's large because i think that per-user umask should be optional, so i've done most of the work to make that happen... now you have to specify user as an argument to pam_umask.so... as it happens it has to be the first argument, because arguments are processed

Bug#325684: rssh logging is too verbose

2005-08-30 Thread dean gaudet
Package: rssh Version: 2.2.3-2 rssh logs about everything it's read from the config file... i'm getting 6+ lines every single rssh session. this is maybe useful when you're debugging, but it's certainly too much information to log at LOG_INFO setting every single session... this patch lowers

Bug#327871: clean atd environment

2005-09-12 Thread dean gaudet
Package: at Version: 3.1.9 when launching atd it's preferable to clean the environment -- in particular things like SSH* env vars or even LOGNAME can leak into the environment of the daemon. i've seen this cause problems such as atd sending mail as 'dean' rather than 'root' when i restart it.

Bug#329285: please add MAILTO=root to crontab

2005-09-20 Thread dean gaudet
Package: clamav-freshclam Version: 0.87-1 please add a MAILTO=root at the top of /etc/cron.d/clamav-freshclam so that any output from freshclam failures goes to root rather than to the clamav user... thanks -dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Bug#329285: Acknowledgement (please add MAILTO=root to crontab)

2005-09-20 Thread dean gaudet
ah, wait i see you add a clamav: root to /etc/aliases... works fine except for those of us using MTAs which don't support /etc/aliases. i'm satisfied enough making a local mod to my own crontab then... go ahead and close this out, sorry. -dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#323543: use /dev/log for syslog logging

2005-08-17 Thread dean gaudet
Package: fail2ban Version: 0.5.2-1 if you ask fail2ban to use SYSLOG for logging it'll try to log to localhost:514 ... which isn't typically enabled on a debian system. the below patch fixes this to use /dev/log, and allows the user to optionally change the syslog-facility in the config file

Bug#314956: Excess permission or bad ownership on file /var/log/btmp

2005-06-19 Thread dean gaudet
Package: openssh-server Version: 1:4.1p1-4 openssh 4.x now tries to append to /var/log/btmp (on bad passwords for example), but it's excessively anal about the permissions on that file. it doesn't permit group or other to have any of read/write/execute. the default debian setup is this:

Bug#306798: rdiff-backup: Fails with xattr + SELinux

2005-06-27 Thread dean gaudet
On Thu, 28 Apr 2005, Konrad Podloucky wrote: Apparently SELinux uses extended attributes and rdiff-backup tries to clear all attributes from temp files it creates during transfer (at least that's what I concluded). However the security.selinux attribute can not be removed (at least not by

Bug#308840: ntp-server: Chrooting doesn't work

2005-06-29 Thread dean gaudet
the following patch fixes the chroot problem. it retains cap_sys_chroot for a few lines longer in the code -- note there is a subsequent call already in the code which removes all capabilities except cap_sys_time. -dean --- ntp-4.2.0a+stable/ntpd/ntpd.c.orig 2005-06-29 14:01:31.0

Bug#316304: compile with -fno-strict-aliasing

2005-06-29 Thread dean gaudet
Package: ntp Version: 1:4.2.0a+stable-8 gcc generates several type punning warnings while compiling ntp and it's probably best to disable strict-aliasing to avoid the possibility of incorrect optimisations. i didn't study the source to see if the type punning could be avoided... that should

Bug#316306: add /etc/default/ntp-server support

2005-06-29 Thread dean gaudet
Package: ntp-server Version: 1:4.2.0a+stable-8 i'd prefer to not have local modifications to /etc/init.d/ntp-server ... i add -L -i /var/chroot/ntpd on my boxes. the patch below adds support for /etc/default/ntp-server which allows the OPTIONS and RUNASUSER to be modified. i also made the

Bug#316908: -A broken in 3.9 cvs

2005-07-04 Thread dean gaudet
Package: tcpdump Version: 3.9.0.cvs.20050614-1 this problem has been submitted upstream (tracking info at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1232347group_id=53066atid=469575) the -A flag no longer prints the ascii minus the hex like it did in 3.8.x... while i'm a bit

Bug#316908: -A broken in 3.9 cvs

2005-07-05 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Romain Francoise wrote: dean gaudet [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: this problem has been submitted upstream (tracking info at http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1232347group_id=53066atid=469575) You might want to ask on -workers, I'm not sure anyone

Bug#317747: su -m / suspend / fg broken with zsh

2005-07-11 Thread dean gaudet
Package: login Version: 1:4.0.3-36 this bug has been introduced since 1:4.0.3-35 ... perhaps related to the fix for #314727. with zsh as your shell, this sequence is busted: dotlark:~% su -m Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# suspend zsh: suspended su -m

Bug#317747: su -m / suspend / fg broken with zsh

2005-07-11 Thread dean gaudet
i'm pretty sure this is because bash and tcsh create their own process group at startup, and zsh doesn't... so zsh shares the same process group as the su process. suppose we have this pstree fragment: zsh(4782,dean)---su(4788,root)---zsh(4789) both pids 4788 and 4789 have pgrp 4788.

Bug#317747: su -m / suspend / fg broken with zsh

2005-07-11 Thread dean gaudet
ok this is gross... but this seems to fix the problems. at first i tried just adding the setpgrp... but with that the su'd zsh doesn't ever seem to wake up. so i threw in the TIOCSPGRP calls to pass the tty pgrp to the su'd zsh... and that fixes it. it looks like bash calls TIOCSPGRP

Bug#317747: [Pkg-shadow-devel] Bug#317747: su -m / suspend / fg broken with zsh

2005-07-11 Thread dean gaudet
On Mon, 11 Jul 2005, Alexander Gattin wrote: As I already said, I'd just prefer to block/ignore several signals like TSTP. Most probably I'll do the same as in upstream -- block everything (except TERM and ALRM) until exit... yeah after i stopped hacking and went to bed this popped into my

Bug#481754: no option for specifying syslog facility

2008-05-18 Thread dean gaudet
Package: fail2ban Version: 0.8.2-3 fail2ban 0.6 supported a syslog-facility config option which controlled the facility for syslog messages... 0.8.2-3 does not support this. i had to edit /usr/share/fail2ban/server/server.py in order to change LOG_DAEMON to LOG_AUTH. -dean -- To

Bug#481760: Failed none causes false triggers

2008-05-18 Thread dean gaudet
Package: fail2ban Version: 0.8.2-3 when connecting with ssh keys, no password, sshd logs: May 18 05:08:45 twinlark sshd[5681]: Failed none for dean from 10.1.1.1 port 37262 ssh2 May 18 05:08:45 twinlark sshd[5681]: Found matching RSA key: May 18 05:08:45 twinlark sshd[5681]: Found matching

Bug#479530: confim on error

2008-05-05 Thread dean gaudet
Package: apt-listchanges Version: 2.82 when apt-listchanges encounters an error (such as the now infamous database /var/lib/apt/listchanges.db failed to load. error) it continues without confirmation even if confirm=1 is in the etc file. i think apt-listchanges should always ask for

Bug#351183: use mdadm -Ac partitions --uuid FOO to assemble root raid

2006-04-12 Thread dean gaudet
On Fri, 24 Feb 2006, Jason Boxman wrote: I tired it, but on my system I get a segmentation fault from mdadm when it tried to assemble. Assembling with the usual `mdadm --assemble /dev/md0 /dev/hde1 /dev/hdg1` works. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux faith 2.6.16-rc3-20060212 #1

Bug#351185: use ifrename -t

2006-02-15 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Guus Sliepen wrote: tags 351185 + wontfix thanks On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 07:13:33PM -0800, dean gaudet wrote: i think /etc/init.d/ifrename should use the -t option... which allows devices to take over already assigned device names... i just had an unstable box

Bug#353229: EDITMOTD=no means don't touch my motd, ever

2006-02-16 Thread dean gaudet
Package: initscripts Version: 2.86.ds1-11 i have EDITMOTD=no in my /etc/default/rcS ... yet the new initscripts.postinst insists on turning my motd into a symlink. that counts as an edit in my books... please leave the file alone, period. thanks -dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug#351185: use ifrename -t

2006-02-16 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 14 Feb 2006, Guus Sliepen wrote: The manual page says this about the -t option: -t Enable name takeover support. [...] This works only with kernel 2.6.X and if the other interface is down. Consequently, this is not compatible with Hotplug. [...] In any case, name swapping and

Bug#359068: File too large

2006-03-26 Thread dean gaudet
Package: vorbis-tools Version: 1.1.1-3 oggenc can't handle files = 2GiB: ERROR: Cannot open input file 20060325-1959.wav: File too large -rw-r--r-- 1 dean music 2560491564 Mar 26 00:01 20060325-1959.wav fix is easy... add -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 to CFLAGS in debian/rules... i've test rebuilt

Bug#351183: use mdadm -Ac partitions --uuid FOO to assemble root raid

2006-02-02 Thread dean gaudet
Package: yaird Version: 0.0.12-3 it's generally preferable to tell mdadm to scan the partitions list to find raid component devices by UUID rather than specify the device list explicitly... for example with an explicit device list you can end up with boot failures if one of the devices is

Bug#351185: use ifrename -t

2006-02-02 Thread dean gaudet
Package: ifrename Version: 27+28pre13-1 i think /etc/init.d/ifrename should use the -t option... which allows devices to take over already assigned device names... i just had an unstable box which was working ok with an /etc/iftab that explicitly specified eth0/eth1 mac addresses. then i

Bug#339400: tail -f and append-only files

2006-02-04 Thread dean gaudet
fyi -- linus has accepted a patch into 2.6.16 which fixes the kernel's behaviour in this case. the kernel was requiring O_APPEND in F_SETFL on append-only files even if the file was opened for read-only... now it requires that the F_SETFL isn't trying to change the O_APPEND flag on an

Bug#361674: please do not use mdrun at all

2006-04-23 Thread dean gaudet
mdrun does not respect the device minor numbers at all... this can totally mess up the ordering of md devices and screw with static mounts (note that while mounting by label/uuid is preferable it isn't always available -- for example XFS external log partitions cannot be specified by label or

Bug#364527: really support large files

2006-04-23 Thread dean gaudet
Package: vorbis-tools Version: 1.1.1-5 hi... thanks for trying to fix bug#359068 ... but unfortunately your fix didn't work :) i think after seeing the patches below you might want to consider the easy fix i suggested in the bug... changing CFLAGS directly. there are a few problems... one is

Bug#355178: 'internal error: job made no progress' on 25G file

2006-03-03 Thread dean gaudet
Package: librsync1 Version: 0.9.7-1 i wonder if you would consider applying this patch from upstream to fix problems which occur with files over 4GB. see: https://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1439412group_id=56125atid=479441 and

Bug#361444: dangling symlinks

2006-04-08 Thread dean gaudet
Package: graphviz Version: 2.8-1 hey there... there are some dangling symlinks in the graphviz package: /usr/lib/graphviz/lua/gv.so - libgv_lua.so /usr/lib/graphviz/perl/gv.so - libgv_perl.so /usr/lib/graphviz/python/_gv.so - libgv_python.so /usr/lib/graphviz/ruby/gv.so - libgv_ruby.so

Bug#361674: problems with using mdrun /dev

2006-04-09 Thread dean gaudet
Package: initramfs-tools Version: 0.59b hi... if you're going to use mdrun /dev and launch all arrays during the initrd then you should also include mdadm.conf -- because otherwise you may end up starting arrays on the wrong minors... or even worse, if someone is using partitioned md then

Bug#349567: tail -f broken on append-only files

2006-01-23 Thread dean gaudet
Package: coreutils Version: 5.93-5 bug#339400 was closed prematurely... notice that tail -f works fine when the file is not marked append only... now don't ask me why O_NONBLOCK is denied on append only files... but it is... I take it that there is no bug in the tail program, then.

Bug#351183: [Yaird-devel] Bug#351183: --run does not fix the disk renaming problem

2006-06-17 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: Then I'll just lean back and wait for you to do the hard work :-D ok i've got a partial solution... see below. i say partial because the following scenario is not quite ideal: - md initially on /dev/sda1 /dev/sdb1 ... build initrd - another disk

Bug#211858: (no subject)

2006-05-28 Thread dean gaudet
reopen 211858 tag 211858 patch thanks hi... i think there's been some confusion w.r.t. bug#211858. it could be my fault, or it could just be that the package changed again between 2004 and 2006... anyhow the current state of the sysklogd package is that this bug exists -- a regular user can

Bug#351183: --run does not fix the disk renaming problem

2006-06-06 Thread dean gaudet
[i've cc'd the md/mdadm maintainer so he can chime in if i'm making an error... Neil if you want to see the entire thread it's visible at http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=351183.] On Tue, 2 May 2006, Jason Lunz wrote: I agree. Unfortunately, telling mdadm to scan other

Bug#351183: --run does not fix the disk renaming problem

2006-06-06 Thread dean gaudet
On Tue, 6 Jun 2006, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: It is wrong to assume a purely no-older-than-etch system: Imagine the process of upgrading from sarge to etch... aha... now i understand :) what you really need is some sort of weak dependency which implies that if the package is already installed

Bug#351183: --run does not fix the disk renaming problem

2006-06-06 Thread dean gaudet
On Wed, 7 Jun 2006, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: ... Well, the above puts the test at boot time. That's ugly IMHO. I'd prefer resolving mdadm features at build time. Something like this: * Resolve mdadm capabilities in Plan.pm * Set some variable (not the version, but flags each capability)

Bug#385792: consider including gromacs stresscpu

2006-09-03 Thread dean gaudet
Package: cpuburn Version: 1.4-23 there's another burn-in program which is based on gromacs inner loops (such as those used in [EMAIL PROTECTED]) which tends to drive up cpu temperatures even more than the programs already in cpuburn package. it has the additional advantage of checking its

Bug#386224: type-punning warnings

2006-09-05 Thread dean gaudet
Package: bind9 Version: 9.3.2-2.1 there's several type-punning warnings while building bind9 9.3.2-2.1... i don't know if these are bugs or not, but it's probably best to add -fno-strict-aliasing to CFLAGS until upstream deals with them (otherwise there could be some subtle hard to discover

Bug#386356: please use -DUNALIGNED_OK on amd64

2006-09-06 Thread dean gaudet
Package: gzip Version: 1.3.5-14 please define UNALIGNED_OK when building the amd64 target... unaligneds are very inexpensive on all intel and amd cpus. i benchmarked gzip -9 on linux-2.6.17.tar with this define and i see a 2.5% speedup on p4, a64, and a 9% speedup on core2. note that this

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