Re: coreutils with selinux support

2003-07-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 23 Jul 2003 17:58, Brian May wrote: > In answer to your question in the bug report, currently SE-Linux users > install a patched coreutils (as well as shadow (login), cron, ssh, > devfsd, logrotate, fcron, stat, procps, and psmisc) from Russell's devfsd is not modified. The conflicts for

Re: Kernel question: initrd/cramfs

2003-07-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 14 Jul 2003 00:42, Nenad Antonic wrote: > However, it looks like initrd/cramfs is not yet stable enough, and > building a number of different kernels for different architectures might > be simpler solution for my needs at the moment. The main problem with the initrd is that it is ver

Re: ITP: sredird

2003-07-08 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 9 Jul 2003 03:55, Adam Heath wrote: > Someone(not me) should write an ld_preload library, that captures opens to > the serial ports, and redirects them. I'll do it if no-one else does... -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux packages http://www.coker.com.au

ITP: sredird

2003-07-08 Thread Russell Coker
Description: RFC 2217 compliant Telnet serial port redirector Sredird is a serial port redirector that is compliant with the RFC 2217 "Telnet Com Port Control Option" protocol. This protocol lets you share a serial port through the network. Copyright GPL v2 NB Apart from kermit there seems t

Re: Advice needed : Oracle and Debian Linux

2003-06-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 19 Jun 2003 23:50, Michael Meskes wrote: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 10:13:17PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > If a company wants to make a commercial distribution based on Debian then > > providing that they accept certain kernel patches and comply with a > > rigorou

Re: Advice needed : Oracle and Debian Linux

2003-06-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 18 Jun 2003 21:06, Antonio Pérez Pérez wrote: > A "little" question from an user: > What could Debian do to be supported by Oracle? > Is there any way to contact them and become a supported distribution? I am not aware of what might be necessary for this, but I imagine it to be similar to

Re: Every spam is sacred

2003-06-16 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 19:37, Jesus Climent wrote: > > account via Debian machines, I guess the reduction in bandwidth usage > > by master and murphy is not to be taken lightly. > > The bandwidth reduction will only happen if you decide to discard the mail, > since the mail will always be accepted,

Re: Every spam is sacred

2003-06-16 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 15:06, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > > There is no excuse for this. Access to servers that are not in spam > > lists is well available to Debian developers. I tunnel my outgoing > > mail through a server in Melbourne no matter where I am, this avoids > > all issues of spam blockin

Re: Every spam is sacred

2003-06-15 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 12:11, Theodore Ts'o wrote: > false positive rate of as high as 2 per day by some estimates, do we > as a body consider it acceptable if some percentage of Debian > developers: > > 1) Don't receive a mail message from a fellow Debian developer > because they unfortun

Re: Debian menu system update

2003-06-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 2 Jun 2003 11:54, Chris Cheney wrote: > SVG icons are the only decent long term solution once screens go to > 200dpi+ those tiny icons will be worthless, of course you can always > double or triple the size of fixed size icons automatically but they > won't look very good. Microsoft is push

Re: PAM messages on chrooted console

2003-05-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 31 May 2003 17:54, Andreas Metzler wrote: > The simplest solution is to use SYSLOGD="-a /path/to/chroot/dev/log" > in /etc/init.d/sysklogd to get the main syslogd to grab the messages > from the chroot, too. You can get the same result on a 2.4.x kernel with the --bind mount option which

Re: PAM messages on chrooted console

2003-05-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 31 May 2003 16:33, Bas Zoetekouw wrote: > You are probably nor running syslogd and/or klodg in the chroot. I'm > not sure is that's possible, though. klogd in the chroot makes no sense. syslogd in the chroot is doable. You have to configure things such that no more than one syslogd lis

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 27 May 2003 19:04, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > Here I suppose the pre-patch is supposed to be applied first, and then > > the application of the debian patch would only trigger application of > > those dependant patches not provided by the pre-patch. > > The order in which the patches are appl

Re: What makes a debconf?

2003-05-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 26 May 2003 23:43, Joe Drew wrote: > On Sunday, May 25, 2003, at 08:10 PM, Jonathan Oxer wrote: > > Maybe a reasonable compromise would be to have 2 'official' debconfs / > > year, as 'Debconf North' and 'Debconf South' (as in Northern and > > Southern hemisphere). > > I've got no problem

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-25 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 25 May 2003 19:33, Herbert Xu wrote: > In the long term, we should have as few binary module packages as > possible. They should either be integrated into our kernel-source > if it is popular enough or made source-only so that the people who > really need them can build them privately. I

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-25 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 25 May 2003 15:11, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > On Sun, May 25, 2003 at 06:21:00AM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 06:32:26PM -0400, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > > > It's not noise at all when it's something that we and others > > > (desperately!) want to know about. > > >

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 25 May 2003 04:18, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Sat, May 24, 2003 at 07:55:08PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > Some m68k architectures might be a hard, I agree. But having a package > > that works on as many machines as possible would be very cool. > > well, I there is a shared debian-

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 25 May 2003 02:24, Ed Cogburn wrote: > >>Well, didn't work that way last time... > > > > They got their second choice. > > I never chose Little Napolean and he wasn't on my alternate list either. Something between 49% and 50% of US voters wanted the Shrub as president. > Please stop ass

Re: Very uneven distribution of packages per maintainer

2003-05-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 24 May 2003 22:15, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Because in Debian there is a few people with high "load" in debian, > and many with less "load". People with high load are more likely to > burn out and disappear. It is thus better to have more people with > less load. > > Of course, the pa

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 24 May 2003 09:51, Alan Shutko wrote: > > The citizens of the US have a little more power than the rest of the > > world, in that you have a *vote* as to who gets to fuck the rest of the > > world. > > Well, didn't work that way last time... They got their second choice. -- http://www.co

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 23 May 2003 17:04, Martin Schulze wrote: > I wonder if some people (Maybe Manoj and Russell, who are both quite > competent) could help with this effort. I would love to contribute, however at the moment I am over-committed already. Progress towards getting SE Linux support in main is goi

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 23 May 2003 03:20, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > You are taking personal actions inimical to the standard of > living of me and my loved ones in retaliation for actions by my > government (which I have little control over), and you expect me to > roll over and congratulate you all on

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 23 May 2003 01:06, Mathieu Roy wrote: > > > If the US economy stays down long enough then the current government > > > won't last. Rhetoric about imaginary enemies in Iraq doesn't satisfy > > > people who lose their jobs because of the economy sucking. > > > > Hm, as could be seen in Iraq,

Re: Debian conference in the US?

2003-05-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 22 May 2003 17:06, Miles Bader wrote: > You mean the iraq war? What's the point? How is avoiding the > U.S. going to help anything, regardless of how strongly you feel about > the U.S. governments acts or positions? When tourism goes down the hotel, entertainment, and airline industries

Re: Executable /lib/ld-linux.so breaks noexec

2003-05-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 21 May 2003 01:45, Martin Pitt wrote: > Is there any particular reason to have /lib/ld-linux.so.* exxecutable? > If it is used only as a proper library, it need not be executable. > > The problem is that this breaks the "noexec" mount option. If /foo is > mounted noexec, then one cannot do

Re: Maintaining kernel source in sarge

2003-05-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 19 May 2003 03:06, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > When I first envisaged the kernel source and kernel-patch > system, I always figured there should be a single source package per > version -- the one you get from kernel.org. *EVERY* arch, including > i386, should provided a kernel-patch

Re: Daft Internet Stuff [Re: Returning from "vacation". (MIA?)]

2003-05-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 19 May 2003 00:25, Matt Ryan wrote: > Neil McGovern wrote: > > These are all valid points, however, I still don't want to read HTML > > e-mail in mutt. > > You are figting a losing battle. If the MUA that someone uses is set-up to > send HTML (rich test, whatever) email then you are highly

Re: Returning from "vacation". (MIA?)

2003-05-15 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 15 May 2003 14:37, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Ahem. Your email wouls have to contain a few highly unlikely phrases to be > classified as "uncertain" by me. FWIW, yours ends up as > > X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-42.6 required=5.0 Sorry, if you are only using that when spamassasin records it as

Re: Returning from "vacation". (MIA?)

2003-05-14 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 15 May 2003 05:27, Chad Walstrom wrote: > It is a shame that such a simple scuffle on-list has sent you packing. Someone who gives up so easily would never last. Everyone gets flamed on occasion, if you can't deal with it you can't survive on a popular mailing list. The Internet is not

Re: Returning from "vacation". (MIA?)

2003-05-14 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 15 May 2003 07:17, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > "Hello. My spam protection system is unsure about your message. Since > you're reading this, your email isn't spam ;-) -- please either sign your > emails to me, or send a short confirmation to the address -abqux > at so that and your mails will

Re: Returning from "vacation". (MIA?)

2003-05-14 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 14 May 2003 14:27, Clay Crouch wrote: > Hmmm An ettiquette lesson before a "welcome back" and a work > assignemnt, just because you find my anti-spam measures draconian and my > filter bypass info in my sig to be annoying. When such lessons are needed they should be dealt with first.

Re: Debian MIA check

2003-05-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 14 May 2003 06:59, Matt Zimmerman wrote: > tcsh as a build-dependency? Seems like a bug in openoffice. That should > be fixed regardless of whether we keep tcsh. Why is it a bug for the compilation of a program to depend on one of the many script interpreters in Debian? If the upstream

Re: can touch(1) readonly files

2003-05-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 14 May 2003 04:21, Branden Robinson wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 11:10:26PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > > Bernd is correct. It's a kernel issue. > > > > SE Linux allows you [...] > > > > SE Linux allows control [...] > > Russel

Re: can touch(1) readonly files

2003-05-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 13 May 2003 21:53, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > On Tue, May 13, 2003 at 04:59:24PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > > But how can I protect _myself_ from _myself_? > > Protection from yourself, especially if you are root are extended Unix > features (like for example immutable and append only files

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 17:56, Chris Cheney wrote: > I also find it hard to believe that the majority of our users do not > have or can not purchase a system that is less than 7 years old. Being > that is how old the i686 sub-arch is... I once attempted to install > Debian 2.1 on a Pentium 90, it took

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-25 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 26 Apr 2003 02:08, Emile van Bergen wrote: > > Realistically, are there any C++ apps on the planet that wouldn't choke > > an i386 to death anyway? > > There's nothing wrong with the performance of C++ apps. Years ago I did > lots of C++ development on a 16MHz 386SX running DOS. The problem

Re: i386 compatibility & libstdc++

2003-04-25 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 20:09, Martin v. Löwis wrote: > Lars Wirzenius wrote: > > So using a 386 as a router and firewall, which it is perfectly capable > > of hardwarewise > > Is that really the case? > > a) Is anybody actually doing this, today? > > b) Do you then have 10MB or 100MB ethernet in that

Re: viruses

2003-04-24 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 25 Apr 2003 08:06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > do u know how to send them? I think you use the command "deltree C:\", it may ask you some questions, but say yes to them all if you really want to send that virus out! -- http://www.coker.com.au/selinux/ My NSA Security Enhanced Linux pac

Re: plagiarism of reiserfs by Debian

2003-04-23 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 11:17, Martin Pool wrote: > The conventional way to get in touch with the developers of a free > software project to raise an issue is to write to the -devel list. It's > not surprising that this is what people do with debian. The conventional way to approach a large group of

Re: [debian-devel] Status of mICQ code audit

2003-04-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 23 Apr 2003 07:25, Drew Scott Daniels wrote: > I wouldn't call it malicious, but I question the use of the word "harmful". > It should have been replaced, attributed or removed. I wondered about it > at the time but didn't comment as the article had already been released. > But maybe it can

Re: [debian-devel] Status of mICQ code audit

2003-04-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 23:07, Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote: > c) the slander on this mailing list, in particular by Steve Langasek, > Russel Cooker and Manoj Srivastava Unable to spell? Which statements made by me, Steve, and Manoj do you claim to be false? Why do you believe that I want to maliciously d

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 22 Apr 2003 02:44, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:25:11 +0400, Hans Reiser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I want the same visibility of credits for reiserfs that movies give > > for their actors. > > Now imagine if ls or grep wanted the list of contributors to > be s

Re: Debian for x86-64 (AMD Opteron)

2003-04-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 21:18, Thomas Petazzoni wrote: > Why don't we consider the x86-64 as beeing a 64-bits-only architecture Because we want to run Netscape, commercial games, Frauhofer MP3 en/decoders, Oracle, and other binary-only i386 software. If AMD had made a 64bit only CPU and devoted thos

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free...

2003-04-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 18:25, Hans Reiser wrote: > I want the same visibility of credits for reiserfs that movies give for > their actors. 30 seconds after the movie ends the cinema is 95% empty and the credits are only just started. Only the first few names get seen, and those are the ones that a

Re: If Debian decides that the Gnu Free Doc License is not free then I will be honored to join Stallman and the FSF in the not free section of your distro

2003-04-21 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 21 Apr 2003 16:08, Hans Reiser wrote: > I find it unspeakably ingrateful to Stallman that some of you begrudge > him his right to express his (discomforting to some) views to all who > use his software, and to ensure that they are not removed by those suits > who are discomforted. > > As fa

defoma description

2003-04-14 Thread Russell Coker
Is there some equivalent to defoma for other distributions? How would you describe the defoma data that applications read? Is it just font configuration files or is there more? I want to setup appropriate SE Linux policy for applications which defoma files and want to not have it Debian specif

Re: [desktop] Patched kernels

2003-04-13 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 09:39, David Nusinow wrote: > How much is broken with 2.5 right now? Could someone who's familiar > with the issues give an approximation as to how much work it would take > to adapt d-i to 2.5? 2.5 has a replacement set of utilities for loading kernel modules. The installer

__ia64_syscall

2002-12-09 Thread Russell Coker
I am getting link errors on compiling SE Linux programs on IA64 with the following: cc -I../include -I/home/etbe/selinux-small-2002102211/debian/lsm/security/selinux/include -O2 -g -L../src avc_enforcing.c -lsecure -o avc_enforcing ../src/libsecure.a(security.o): In function `security': /hom

Re: Problems with XFS patch and SMP

2002-12-08 Thread Russell Coker
It would be interesting to see an strace of the program and the output of "dmesg".

Re: RSBAC support in Debian

2002-12-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 22:43, Russell Coker wrote: > I have built some kernel packages for RSBAC and put them online on > http://www.coker.com.au/rsbac/ . Oh, I didn't bother building a 2.2 kernel patch package because I don't use 2.2 kernels for anything serious. If you want t

Re: RSBAC support in Debian

2002-12-07 Thread Russell Coker
ckage as I don't have the user-space tools (or the time to spare). Even though I don't plan to use RSBAC myself I think it's a worthy thing to have in Debian, so I'm happy to maintain the kernel packages for a while (sans proper testing) to help kick-start the Debian/RSBAC project. Russell Coker

Re: named problems

2002-12-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 15:56, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > > That is what is wrong. BIND9 drops the capability cap_dac_override and > > thus can't create files in directories owned by a UID other than root > > unless they are mode 777. > > > > The solution is to have the directory owned by the same UID that

Re: named problems

2002-12-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 15:20, Rodrigo Moya wrote: > Dec 7 04:02:49 lagun named[1108]: dumping master file: > /var/cache/bind/tmp-LWOG9Y: open: permission denied > Dec 7 04:02:49 lagun named[1108]: transfer of 'historia-antigua.com/IN' > from 80.33.181.69#53: failed while receiving responses: perm

Re: arch name

2002-12-07 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 7 Dec 2002 13:48, Russell Coker wrote: > In my debian/rules I need to know the name of the architecture. I need the > name that is used in Debian packages "i386" for Intel or "arm" for ARM. > uname gives "i686" and "armv4l" respectivel

arch name

2002-12-07 Thread Russell Coker
In my debian/rules I need to know the name of the architecture. I need the name that is used in Debian packages "i386" for Intel or "arm" for ARM. uname gives "i686" and "armv4l" respectively (and presumably has similar problems on other platforms). What do I do to get the generic name for th

Re: bill gates Linux

2002-12-06 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 12:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The response I got to a simple > request for an DOS or Windows > based "SETUP.EXE" program which > loads Linux onto my hard drive, > would lead me to thick I was asking > for the combination to Fort Knox. The combination to Fort Knox is 78

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-03 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 18:55, Adam McKenna wrote: > As a side note, I am pretty amused by the people in this thread who say > "don't use these systems, they're antisocial", and then follow that up with > "I'm going to blacklist anyone who uses these systems".. I guess their > definition of antisocial

Re: bill gates linux

2002-12-03 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 3 Dec 2002 10:29, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am not at totally stupid > person.I have written a 60k > byte qbasic application program. Are these two statements related? > I have watched with interest over > the past few years the development > of Linux.I believe it will really > never g

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 17:18, Stephen Zander wrote: > > "Jan" == Jan Niehusmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Jan> Time will tell. I fear that some day, the only way to use > Jan> email productively is to block all email with invalid sender > Jan> adresses. And I don't know a way do v

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 2 Dec 2002 16:39, Jan Niehusmann wrote: > > It is not suitable for individual email addresses. > > Time will tell. I fear that some day, the only way to use email > productively is to block all email with invalid sender adresses. And I > don't know a way do valdiate a (not yet known) addres

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 1 Dec 2002 19:19, Gerrit Pape wrote: > On Sun, Dec 01, 2002 at 02:35:28PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > > The people who run such stupid filters misunderstand the way the > > Internet works. > > Maybe you should do a short research on the user of this mail handling &g

Re: Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-12-01 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 22:42, Ulrich Eckhardt wrote: > On Saturday 30 November 2002 16:48, Russell Coker wrote: > [snipped rant and threats] > > > ... if such messages continue. > > You misunderstood the way such things work, you only have to confirm once > that you intend

Fwd: Please confirm your message

2002-11-30 Thread Russell Coker
ntent-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Russell Coker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Gerrit Pape" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#171253: ITP: libdjbdns -- DNS client library designed to r

Re: reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 17:48, Tommi Virtanen wrote: > On Fri, Nov 29, 2002 at 02:16:20PM +0100, Russell Coker wrote: > > Do we have a library in Debian that provides reliable stream based > > communication over UDP? > > > > I want to be able to deal with asymetric links

reliable streams over UDP

2002-11-29 Thread Russell Coker
Do we have a library in Debian that provides reliable stream based communication over UDP? I want to be able to deal with asymetric links and end-points that change IP address so TCP won't work. Surely someone must have written something similar to TCP but implemented on top of UDP. Is such a

Re: Pick a name, any name...

2002-11-29 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 29 Nov 2002 04:39, John H. Robinson, IV wrote: > Ben Armstrong wrote: > > Bah, that's what CNAME is for. > > that is _NOT_ what a CNAME is for. a CNAME is for when the hostname is > in a domain that is OUTSIDE of your control. > > ie: evil.debian.org -> www.msn.com = CNAME (we don't control

Re: Why do system users have shells?

2002-11-26 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 22:34, H. S. Teoh wrote: > > > Possibly because otherwise, you cannot run any shell scripts as that > > > user. (This may also apply to more than shell scripts, but I'm not sure > > > about that.) > > > > sudo, start-stop-daemon, su -s > > > > Why can't people read man pages bef

Re: Why do system users have shells?

2002-11-25 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 25 Nov 2002 20:39, H. S. Teoh wrote: > On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:10:44PM -0700, James Hamilton wrote: > > I'm curious why system users such as bin, sys, and nobody have /bin/sh > > as a shell instead of a noshell program or /bin/false. > > [snip] > > Possibly because otherwise, you canno

Re: Handing over readseq

2002-11-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 18:54, Michael Schmitz wrote: > > When I'm doing such package chang-over's it's generally just arranged > > through private mail and the rest of the world learns about it through > > the changelog. > > > > IMHO an arranged take-over like that requires no special announcements.

Re: Handing over readseq

2002-11-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 22 Nov 2002 14:07, Andreas Tille wrote: > I just hand over the readseq package to Michael Schmitz. He is obviousely > much more competent to maintain the package than me. We agreed not to > go the bureocratic orphan and adopt. The next upload will just come from > Michael. Why so formal

Re: lilo-22.3.2-3 trashed my SCSI disk

2002-09-03 Thread Russell Coker
r hardware fails to badly that Linux programs can't fix it then grub vs LILO is not an issue. Russell Coker PS Let's move this to debian-user.

Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

2002-09-02 Thread Russell Coker
On Mon, 2 Sep 2002 17:22, Dmitry Borodaenko wrote: > Discouraging use of patent-encumbered technologies is the same as > political emigration: it is the easy way out of the oppression, but it > is nothing else but a defeat, and when you are fleeing to another > country, this defeat will follow you

Re: Bug#158683: ITP: oggasm -- MP3 to Ogg converter

2002-08-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 17:39, Oohara Yuuma wrote: > > 3) to my knowledge, neither bladeenc nor lame do use these algorithms > > (they are mainly for encoding at low bit rate, something these > > encoders don't do well - they were'nt designed for that) > > 4) however, from what I understand Fraunho

Re: ardour

2002-08-31 Thread Russell Coker
On Sat, 31 Aug 2002 04:48 pm, Robert Jordens wrote: > So there remain the following options: > > a) No ardour in Debian > > b) build the libraries with ardour and link statically against them >(Pauls wish, against policy and my feelings) > > c) dynamically link against the libraries in Debian (

Re: Bug#158631: ITP: mp32ogg -- Converts mp3 file to Ogg Vorbis

2002-08-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:59, Julien Danjou wrote: > Maybe, but I think lots of people will have to convert mp3 to vorbis if mp3 > decoder dispear from Debian. No they won't, they can keep their favourite mp3 player installed even though dselect will list it as "obsolete", and it will keep working.

Re: Bug#158631: ITP: mp32ogg -- Converts mp3 file to Ogg Vorbis

2002-08-28 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 18:17, Craig Dickson wrote: > Whenever the subject of mp3->vorbis (or wma->vorbis, or any other lossy > codec to vorbis) transcoding comes up on the vorbis mailing list, the > reaction from the vorbis developers and the more knowledgeable vorbis > users is "don't do it". Aside f

Re: can a non developper become a debian maintainer ?

2002-08-27 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 28 Aug 2002 01:50, Rémi Letot wrote: > I have a simple question : can a non developper type become a debian > maintainer ? The reason is that I use debian on multiple servers and > workstations, and I'd like to contribute to the project. I'm > definitely not a developper, more a sysadmin. I

Re: pam_console for debian

2002-08-22 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 22 Aug 2002 21:46, Sam Clegg wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 10:23:09AM -0700, David Caldwell wrote: > > Sounds like what you really want is a way to take exclusive access to the > > camera device somehow. Can you exclusively open the device and prevent > > others from opening it too? I su

/bin/login hanging around

2002-08-19 Thread Russell Coker
Why is it that /bin/login seems to hang around for the duration of the user's session on other distributions but not on Debian? Why do other distributions choose to have it keep running until the end of the session while we did not? -- I do not get viruses because I do not use MS software. If

Fwd: Bug#157231: devfsd: perms for the rio500 device

2002-08-19 Thread Russell Coker
Could you please send me suggestions (off-list) as to which would be the best default group for such a device, audio or disk. -- Forwarded Message -- Subject: Bug#157231: devfsd: perms for the rio500 device Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2002 05:51:04 +0100 From: Bastien Nocera <[EMAIL PROT

Re: chroot administration

2002-08-15 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:16, John Hasler wrote: > Russell Coker writes: > > As the US government is prohibited from owning copyright they definately > > can't get a copyright in their own jurisdiction,... > > The US government definitely is allowed to own copyrights

Re: chroot administration

2002-08-15 Thread Russell Coker
heir own. As the US government is prohibited from owning copyright they definately can't get a copyright in their own jurisdiction, and possibly can't apply for one in another jurisdiction (depending on interpretation). On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 17:02, John Hasler wrote: > Russell Coker writes

Re: Sandboxing Debian [was: Re: chroot administration]

2002-08-15 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 15 Aug 2002 12:50, Sam Vilain wrote: > > There are some limitations with it. The biggest limitation when > > compared to my SE Linux work is it's lack of flexibility. I can > > setup a SE Linux chroot, then do a bind mount of /home/www, and > > grant read-only access to the files and dire

Re: chroot administration

2002-08-14 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:50, John Hasler wrote: > Russell Coker writes: > > They don't apply to SE Linux either, the NSA says that SE Linux is > > licensed under the GPL only. If anyone wants to dispute that then they > > have to sue the NSA... > > The licensing of t

Re: chroot administration

2002-08-14 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 15:47, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 11:50:14AM +0100, Sam Vilain wrote: > > You might want to investiage `security contexts', a new kernel feature > > that can be used for virtual IP roots as well as making processes in > > one context (even root) not able to s

Re: chroot administration

2002-08-14 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 14:47, you wrote: > btw, when I said "stole" i didnt mean it to be harsh. sorry if it came > off that way. No probs, I didn't take any offense. I'd be happy to work with you on developing such things if your interests are similar to mine. -- I do not get viruses because I

Re: chroot administration

2002-08-14 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 12:50, Sam Vilain wrote: > > argh. its so cool that you essentially stole my summer research. :(. > > Does this allow you to create any amount of chroot jails? We are also > > working on making "virtual IPs" that each jail would get. We are also > > working on being able to mo

Re: chroot administration

2002-08-14 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 14 Aug 2002 05:35, Shaya Potter wrote: > On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 22:09, Colin Walters wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-08-13 at 17:48, Russell Coker wrote: > > > I have written SE Linux policy for administration of a chroot > > > environment. That allows me to give full

chroot administration

2002-08-13 Thread Russell Coker
I have written SE Linux policy for administration of a chroot environment. That allows me to give full root administration access (ability to create/delete users, kill processes running under different UIDs, ptrace, etc) to a chroot environment without giving any access to the rest of the syst

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-20 Thread Russell Coker
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002 01:21, Brian May wrote: > On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 01:29:24PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > Another possibility is bug 142916. This resulted in one of my machines > > becoming non-bootable. > > Interesting. > > I complained loudly about a similar

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 13:40, Andreas Schuldei wrote: > * Russell Coker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020419 13:31]: > > > Did the initrd load at all? If it did then it could be a bug in > > > initrd-tools. Please show me the boot messages. > > an other reason for failiour was

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-19 Thread Russell Coker
On Fri, 19 Apr 2002 11:47, Herbert Xu wrote: > Michael Piefel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > No Disk > > The old kernel was handcrafted. The new one makes an initial RAM disk > > and loads the modules mentioned in /etc/modules. Of course, the disk > > driver had been compiled in before. I'm not su

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:13, Jack Howarth wrote: > by forcing Linux and gnu to be more rigorous in programming. The just > because it runs on i386 won't cut it with multiple arches and enforces > the requirement of clean coding that is processor independent. I've fixed over a dozen bugs in my progra

Re: Potato->Woody kernel upgrade problems

2002-04-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 15:32, Michael Piefel wrote: > The Crash > Well, simply, it was the wrong kernel. The guide recommends to install > a new kernel with: apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-{386,586tsc,686} > However, the system has a AMD K6. Of course it's his fault for choosing 386, 486, and

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-18 Thread Russell Coker
On Thu, 18 Apr 2002 08:01, Ari Makela wrote: > On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:14:15AM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > > What do you contribute to open source in general? A search of > > sourceforge and google reveals nothing. > > Google finds nothing because he's a F

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-17 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 22:58, Lasse Karkkainen wrote: > >> That's the result of reading your (=Debian developers') rude replies > >> to very polite questions asked by other people. > > > > If you claim that your first post was polite I am truly amazed. It was > > a very rude and very clueless att

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-17 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 04:46, David D.W. Downey wrote: > On Monday 15 April 2002 19:14, Lasse Karkkainen wrote: > > > stupid shit here > > > Dude, kiss our collective arses. Do yourself a favor. hit > http://linuxnewbie.codecastle.com and read every fiucking thing on that > site, then hit http://lin

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-17 Thread Russell Coker
On Wed, 17 Apr 2002 10:30, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 07:37:11PM -0700, David D.W. Downey wrote: > > On Tuesday 16 April 2002 00:29, Andreas Metzler wrote: > > > Marc Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Probably Geforce4 (usable with the nonfree Nvidia-driver on 4.1.*) or > >

Re: FW: Run-time library update

2002-04-16 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 13:26, Wilson wrote: > > Hi there, > > Ive been goind trough ur web site and documents, and found them extremely > > useful. Ive a query on shared libraries. > > Ive an application running, which links certain shared libs. Can I update > > the library during run-time, and load

Re: XFree 4.2.0 - again

2002-04-16 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 04:57, Jeff Licquia wrote: > On Mon, 2002-04-15 at 21:14, Lasse Karkkainen wrote: > > Hi! (it's my first post here) > > > > You are probably sick and tired of this topic, but ... > > IT'S A QUARTER YEAR ANNIVERSARY OF 4.2.0 RELEASE! > > > > Yes, it really has been three (3) mo

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