Re: man 2 intro - SVID (fwd)

On Apr 27, Liran Zvibel wrote: BTW2: What do you think about Stevens' book Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment? Should I buy it? Yes! IMHO it is a great book. It contains all you need to know about Unix programming. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: netstd tools in the base system (was Re: What to do with /bin/perl symlink?)

, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PROPOSAL: Services, inetd and xinetd

systems can't talk to each other because they don't use the same port numbers for the service. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: netstsd depends on cpp?

will suggest cpp. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: What to do with /bin/perl symlink?

. netbase only provides the tools to configure the network (ifconfig/route/...) and to get other networking services up and running (inetd/portmapper). Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89

Re: Making the libc5-libc6 upgrade to be safe (was: netstd...)

had to restore the netstd sources from tape and I forgot to re-apply this patch along with two other patches from Topi Miettinen to the netstd sources. This has been fixed with netstd 3.05. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D

Re: Virtual Package: ftp-server | ftpd

ftpd-alternatives file on startup and will only enable the line which has been selected as default (or the one with the highest priority). Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89

Re: problems with nfs and libc6

. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: intent to package rinetd

no * representations about the suitability of this software for any purpose. * It is provided as is without express or implied warranty. */ It would have to go to non-free ... Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4

Re: intent to package rinetd

. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Use of suidmanager

tools (checkperms etc.). Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

Re: inetd question

ident lookup. Every other address would cause an ident lookup. or - use ipfwadm to protect the ident port Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: inetd question

running but won't reduce the (maybe unnecessary) traffic. If the number of requests can't be reduced the identd should be run in standalone mode. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F

tin copyright problems?

, and this copyright notice * is included prominently in any copy made. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

Re: Status of Debian Policy

sites but for packages which have more than one upstream site (for example netstd). Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e

Re: inetd question

keyword has been used). Using nowait.120 is of course a solution but it is probably better to find the application that is causing the problem. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89

Re: inetd question

the identity it will call the local ident/auth service (which will be called by inetd). Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: dcfgtool and clones

current menu system? The pdmenu package could be a good starting point for a sysadmin tool. Thanks, Peter -- Peter Tobias [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP ID EFAA400D, fingerprint = 06 89 EB 2E 01 7C B4 02 04 62 89 6C 2F DD F1 3C -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Someone working on a Penguin package?

has been moved. The new URL is http://www.eden.com/~fsg/penguin.html Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden

Bug#4465: security hole in netdiag package

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Re: Bug#4358: smartlist

). Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED]

new maintainer for wu-ftpd wanted

Hi, I'm searching for a new maintainer for the wu-ftpd package. You should be able to program in perl (addftpuser is written in perl). Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich

Re: dpkg 1.3.8: dpkg-buildpackage -sa works and is recommended

packaging scheme will require you to put all of these sub-packages together, and turn the whole thing into a normal package. No problem. The archive with the original sources would be my own collection of original sources then ... Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail

Bug#3325: usr/include/bsd/signal.h:7: No include path in which to find signal.h

to use BSD signals you should use #include signal.h and compile the program with -I/usr/include/bsd. Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: 1.2 modem devices

the consistency in the serial post lock names. There should be no problem if all programs use the ttyS* devices and the /var/lock directory. Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und

Re: Bug#3318: traceroute doesn't work with 1.2.13

support IP_HDRINCL). Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Bug#2082: X11R6: Everybody can remove the contents of /tmp/.X11-unix

from rwxrwxrwx to a more restrictive mode (maybe with the t bit). BTW: I'm using the following packages (a.out): xbase3.1.2-4 xstd 3.1.2-3 xlib 3.1.2-2 xs3 3.1.2-1 Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule

Re: Bug#2079: wu-ftpd xferstats

))*400; + $date1 += index(JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec,substr($a, 4, 3)) / 3 * 400; + $date2 += index(JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec,substr($b, 4, 3)) / 3 * 400; $date1 += substr($a, 8, 2); $date2 += substr($b, 8, 2); $date1 - $date2; Thanks, Peter -- Peter

bind package, maintainer wanted ...

Hi, I'm searching for a new maintainer for the bind package. I don't use it myself so I'm probably not the right person to maintain it. Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und

bind package, new maintainer!

Hi, the new maintainer for the bind package is Robert Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz

Bug#1915: Perl doesn't like the number 0

Darren/Torin/Who Ever... wrote: Peter Tobias spoke unto the world: Package: perl Version: 5.002-1 (a.out) The following program prints 0.e-1 instead of 0. for ($j = 0; $j = 7; $j++) { print $j\n; } I've not been able to duplicate this anywhere using a.out under linux or any other

Bug#1915: Perl doesn't like the number 0

Package: perl Version: 5.002-1 (a.out) The following program prints 0.e-1 instead of 0. for ($j = 0; $j = 7; $j++) { print $j\n; } Output: 0.e-1 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#1916: perl: wrong entries in Config.pm

' myhostname='perv' myuname='linux perv 1.2.13 #3 thu sep 21 01:26:52 pdt 1995 i486 ' cf_by='torin' cf_email='[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL

Re: bogo-1.2-1 released

some of these very small packages together into a somewhat larger one ? Yes, that's a good idea. There could be separate packages for system tools (memtest, bogomips, ...), for console tools (open, vlock, ...) and for other tools. Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail

patch for dipconfig ...

`; +$rd = 21 $tty; restart: Thanks, Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany

Re: antisocial X11 apps: xtet42, chimera

work. This condition persists for: xtet42: 4 () minutes Chimera: eleven (!!!) minutes Is it Cyrix 486-40 CPU? I remember seeing some similar reports in a linux newsgroup. Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland

dipconfig script ...

*: M4[E8IW\G)%33CGEE%-..644TXYY9133CGEE%-..644TXYY9133CGEE%-. 2.644TXY?7WZ#Y;)RH@ 4 end - cut here - -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ftp.debian.org incoming.uk needs update

in this directory should already be at ftp.debian.org -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden, Germany

Re: Telnetd Environment Vulnerability (fwd)

versions 1.21-1 and above are ok (or 1.20 and above if you use ld.so v1.7.x). Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule Ostfriesland [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fachbereich Elektrotechnik und Informatik [EMAIL PROTECTED] Constantiaplatz 4, 26723 Emden

Bug#1711: adduser replaces NIS entries in /etc/passwd

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Re: Unidentified subject!

. (from the description field...) I think it's better to use a different name. Maybe we'll have a binary package with the tools for general national language support sometimes. What about xnls, motifnls or nlsmotif? Peter -- Peter TobiasEMail: Fachhochschule