Hi,
I am (in theory) still maintaining the following packages:
fvwm
fvwm2
fvwm-common
xloadimage
xcal
In practice, I haven't uploaded new versions of these for many months.
Both xcal and xloadimage have few outstanding bugs. fvwm2 has many
outstanding bugs, some of which are in reality either
On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Thomas Gebhardt wrote:
Hi Austin,
Incidentally, simply rebuilding the acct package against the new
header files is a little tricky, since the ./configure script uses
sys/acct.h in preference to linux/acct.h
Did you manage to build a acct package for 2.1.96?
If
The latest development linux kernels have a fairly substantially
changed struct acct defined in acct.h.
Currently:
libc5:
sys/acct.h just includes linux/acct.h (2.0.32 version)
libc6:
sys/acct.h is a new file, but it defines a structure which
happens to be the same as linux/acct.h (2.0.32
itself (sorting out a console
for it's output while it's at it).
It should be check it works with ELF, latest X libraries, the current
sysvinit, but I don't anticipate any probplems.
Austin
/* Copyright (c) Austin Donnelly 1995-1998
Package: mount
Version: 2.5j-1.1
In many traditional unices, swapon can take a -s option. This means
list the partition (or files) currently in use. Linux's swapon doesn't
have this option, but it would be nice if it did.
I don't think this information is made available outside the kernel;
On Thu, 8 Aug 1996, Larry Gilbert wrote:
Package: fvwm
Version: 1.24r-24
Documentation for the fvwm modules appears to be missing from this
package.
Yes, that's because although the manpages have changed a little
between the two versions of fvwm, they still have the same names.
This means
I send off a bug report against emacs to the emacs maintainers, and
got a patch back.
Here's my report, and the patch, delimited by =-=-=-=-= lines
Austin
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Austin Donnelly)
Newsgroups
Package: procps
Version: 0.97-4
valour$ w
5:07pm up 15 days, 20:31, 7 users, load average: 0.16, 0.11, 0.09, 3/76
User tty login@ idle JCPU PCPU what
and1000 ttyp0 4:15pm49 24 -bash (bash)
Package: bsdutils
Version: 1.3-1
chiark:~ /bin/kill -HUP syslogd
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
chiark:~
[...core dump snipped...]
There were a number of bugs in /bin/kill, most due to the poor code
quality making loops difficult to decipher.
A large number of signals were missing from the
On Wed, 25 Oct 1995 15:40:09 +1000 (EST), Herbert Xu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Package: bsdutils
Version: 1.3-1
It is trivial to make /bin/kill segfault:
$ /bin/kill -l
INT QUIT ILL TRAP ABRT UNUSED FPE KILL USR1 SEGV USR2 PIPE ALRM TERM STKFLT
CHLD
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
The
Package: man
Version: 2.3.10-2
'man -k' and 'apropos' with a damaged or corrupted index.db
segfaults. This is not a very friendly error message.
I have traced the problem to the following piece of code:
whatis.c
364: /* scan for
On Sat, 25 Nov 1995, Alvar Bray wrote:
[...]
I have heard several other people say they have had corrupt database
files - how do they get corrupted? I have never managed to corrupt
mine (but then I, as the package maintainer, wouldnt would I)
I have no idea how mine got corrupted, sorry :(
Package: base
Version: 0.93.6-13
This package creates some new groups: floppy, tape, games
However, it does this by having a new /etc/group file. This causes a
conflict in the configuration files, and people have to manually edit
their /etc/group file.
In my opinion, adding groups or users
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
Bill Mitchell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
However, more directly to the point of moving elfward, I like Ian's
suggestion about a elf-available(8) test during preinst of elf-dependent
(elfish?) packages. It seems clean, simple, and effective to me.
And if the
In the reasonably near future fvwm version 2 will be released (ie,
within the next few weeks, I am told).
fvwm 2 has a radically different ~/.fvwmrc format, such that everyone
will need to modify theirs before being able to even use fvwm2.
The fvwm2 distribution will come with a shell script
Package: xntp
Version: 3.4x-1
The 'struct timex' structure has changed in the newser 1.3.x kernels
(for x approx 28 or so, I'm told).
This means that xntpd binaries compiled agains old kernels dumps core
on startup.
I'm told that version 3.4t has support for the latest linux, but I
haven't
Package: svgalib
Version: 1.25-4
The following programs are installed setuid root:
restoretextmode
restorefont
restorepalette
dumpreg
fix132x43
This allows any user to completely hose the console at will.
Can I suggest that they be made:
-rwsr-x--- 1 root console
(this
I've had a look at this bug: its some pretty dire code in the section
the reads your .fvwmrc.
I submit the following patch to fix the problem.
Austin
--- configure.c.old Fri Oct 20 16:48:44 1995
+++ configure.c Fri Oct 20 21:36:12 1995
@@ -1979,12 +1979,10 @@
/* Generate a temporary
Package: adduser
Version: 1.94-1
Three different bugs fixed here:
(1) There were a few race conditions in locking the password and
group files. A badly timed ^C could result in the lockfile
not being cleared.
(2) chown()/chmod() persistantly used in the wrong order throughout.
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