Offering up the List Manager position

1997-12-17 Thread Pete Templin
Folks, After seven or eight months as Debian's mailing list manager, I'm ready for a change of pace. I'd like to offer up the position to any interested individual(s). I'm offering the position because I haven't been spending as many late nights at my day job's office, and I've

Re: routing question

1997-06-19 Thread Pete Templin
You're using diald, right? This looks fairly good. However, I'm not sure about the metrics; you might want to convince diald to make the modem/ default route more expensive - say, still have eth0 at 0, have ppp0 (when it's up) at 10, and sl0 (where diald is listening) at 100, or something,

Re: I'm back !

1997-06-06 Thread Pete Templin
On Fri, 6 Jun 1997, Michael Neuffer wrote: What's the stability of hamm right now ? Is it usable ? Yes it is. My machine here has been running on hamm for weeks. A bunch of libs are still missing but otherwise it is quite functional. I completely upgraded the secondary listserver in one

just making sure we're all really this quiet

1997-06-01 Thread Pete Templin
Is it me, or are the Debian lists really quiet? My secondary list server hasn't transferred a single thing from the primary server in several hours, perhaps even a day. Am I crazy, or did I break something? I think I should suggest that we remove all of the editors except ae from the entire

Re: ssh and default home directory permissions (revisited?)

1997-05-26 Thread Pete Templin
On Mon, 26 May 1997, Christian Hudon wrote: On May 26, Pete Templin wrote I've removed group write permissions from my home dir because of the programs like qmail and ssh which don't like it. I don't think anything would break because of removing these permissions, so maybe

Uploaded nntp 1.5.12.1-2 (source i386) to master (fwd)

1997-05-15 Thread Pete Templin
The debian lists don't accept submissions from system daemons such as root. Here's a posting that was diverted to me. Pete -- Pete Templin, Debian List Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 04:21:22 -0400 From: The Super User [EMAIL

Re: shadow-970502 released (fwd)

1997-05-15 Thread Pete Templin
The debian lists don't accept submissions from system daemons such as root, admin, etc. Here's a submission that was diverted to me. Pete -- Pete Templin, Debian List Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: 15 May 1997 05:01:19 - From: MACN admin

Uploaded cnews cr.g7-5 (source i386) to master (fwd)

1997-05-15 Thread Pete Templin
The debian lists don't accept postings from root. Here's a message that was diverted to me. Pete -- Pete Templin, Debian List Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Forwarded message -- Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 04:21:27 -0400 From: The Super User [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-devel

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Pete Templin
On 15 May 1997, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: You can stripe swap without using md - the kernel does it for you ever since Linux 1.3.2 :) Read the swapon manpage, option -p. The kernel may allocate pages on a round-robin basis, but I'd like to tuck my swapspace into my md disk for better

Re: Problems adding swap files

1997-05-15 Thread Pete Templin
On 15 May 1997, Rob Browning wrote: Pete Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As my system is currently laid out, I'm not suffering from any shortage of swap _space_ (240MB allocated, max seen in use is 33MB), I'm merely trying to sneak out the best possible performance without spending