Re: package not entering testing

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
Testing scripts are dead since some time. okay, so no package will make it to testing in the mean time??? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than

Re: package not entering testing

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
t i can find nothing on why wuzzah is "Too young, only 0 of 10 days old". it's 17 days old! -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing

Re: why was there no bug filed?

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
~/.devscripts) in your crontab. nice! still doesn't explain why the bug wasn't reported, does it? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better thing

Bug#171693: ITP: wondershaper -- a script to set up QoS, mainly for home users

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
bowl #1 Thu Nov 28 09:36:25 CET 2002 i686 Locale: LANG=en_GB.ISO-8859-15, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.ISO-8859-15 -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than f

package not entering testing

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
x27;s "Too young, only 0 of 10 days old". i uploaded it to unstable on 17 Nov! What's going on? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fi

why was there no bug filed?

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
speaks for itself. i didn't notice in months... http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=arm&pkg=gradm&ver=1.5a-1 http://bugs.debian.org/gradm -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `

yacc on arm???

2002-12-04 Thread martin f krafft
please check http://buildd.debian.org/build.php?arch=arm&pkg=gradm&ver=1.5a-1 bison is in build-depends, and at least on i386, it provides bison.yacc, which yacc is linked to via alternatives. so what's the deal on ARM? -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PR

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-29 Thread martin f krafft
s and such. we'll have to wait... -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system NOTE: The public PGP keyservers are broken! Get my

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-28 Thread martin f krafft
I just think I'd guard my laptop with > my mail signing key on it about the same no matter which agent I had > running. Right. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-27 Thread martin f krafft
reveals your passphrase on stdout. bad. from what i understood. gpg-agent hooks into gpg like ssh-agent into ssh and you can't get at the passphrase. correct me if this is wrong. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, a

Re: gpg-agent?

2002-11-27 Thread martin f krafft
s a horrible security threat. i am not going to give my GPG passphrase to that thing! i've heard that gpg-agent can do better... -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you hav

gpg-agent?

2002-11-27 Thread martin f krafft
where can i find gpg-agent? is it packaged for debian? if not, then i'll file an ITP unless someone has valid things to say against that. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - wh

Re: two 'news' aliases

2002-11-26 Thread martin f krafft
on this system installed a news user. -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things to do than fixing a system pgpPujNiX0Eod.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: two 'news' aliases

2002-11-25 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.11.25.2159 +0100]: > my fresh woody system now has two news aliases: maybe relevant: i did purge the original exim install and replace it with postfix. after all, the file starts out with: # It was originally generated by `e

two 'news' aliases

2002-11-25 Thread martin f krafft
'aliases' or 'news' revealed no information. how did it get there? a bug should be filed... -- .''`. martin f. krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> : :' :proud Debian developer, admin, and user `. `'` `- Debian - when you have better things

Bug#159522: ITP: gjay -- an automatic and learning DJ for xmms

2002-09-03 Thread martin f krafft
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2002-09-03 Severity: wishlist * Package name: gjay Version : 0.1 Upstream Author : Chuck Groom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://gjay.sourceforge.net * License : GPL Description : an automatic and learning DJ for xmms

Re: Why XFree86 4.2 Isn't in Woody

2002-04-16 Thread martin f krafft
Dear Branden, in the spirit of a recent email reminding us of this: Thank you. i am myself a recipient of a lot of "hate mail" and questions on why woody "sucks" simply because i've converted a *very large* number of people to debian. thanks you for writing to slashdot and for the email you just

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.15.1952 +0200]: > Imagine that scene aus TS2, where Woody is riding on the horse through > the black-white countryside... Now imagine him riding trough > (black-white) terminal room, ie. on the table in front of keyboards. > Behind him, everythi

Re: Debian Animation ;)

2002-04-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.15.0056 +0200]: > Perhaps we can ask the people at Pixar if they want to give back to > community and render us a small movie starring woody. After all, they > use Linux for the render farm, no? if you're serious about this, i even have a coup

Re: Bug#140349: ITP: cvs-conf -- Manage your configuration files via CVS

2002-04-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.09.0112 +0200]: > | really? are you aware how buggy it is? > > No. According to the stuff I've seen it gives problems on non-UNIX > platforms, but that shouldn't be a concern to us. okay, well then i'm misinformed. good for us. PreservePer

Re: Bug#140349: ITP: cvs-conf -- Manage your configuration files via CVS

2002-04-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.08.1943 +0200]: > | we're talking about the PreservePermissions configuration option, > | which is something different. i should have been more clear. > > Uhm, that is actually just not enabled. I might enable it post-woody. really? are yo

Re: Bug#140349: ITP: cvs-conf -- Manage your configuration files via CVS

2002-04-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.07.1306 +0200]: > It does not disable anything. If you had read the info file it states > pretty clearly: > >All `,v' files are created read-only, and you should not change the > permission of those files. The directories inside the r

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-04-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrew Pimlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.04.0135 +0200]: > > this problem is understood by the developers of proftpd > > Wichert said that nobody has explained why the current fix on s.d.o > doesn't work. If the problem is understood, why hasn't someone > explained this? That's al

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-04-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.04.0211 +0200]: > > because it will prevent s.d.o from serving a buggy package. it's not > > fixed perfectly, but at least it's not subject to a known exploit. > > Could you be a little more careful with your terms? A DOS is not an > exploit,

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-04-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nathan E Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.03.0732 +0200]: > > well, i am calm, but i disagree. sure, it boils down to the question > > who debian's audience are, but for all i am concerned, debian's > > reputation _used_ to include "security", and the reason why i'd (as in > > "would

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-04-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrew Pimlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.03.1805 +0200]: > On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 10:54:25AM -0500, Andrew Pimlott wrote: > > I think Wichert's position > > ... reflects appropriate discipline, given the (relatively modest) > severity of the problem. i also have to agree with you

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-04-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Andrew Pimlott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.03.1754 +0200]: > There are several good reasons: > > - If a band-aid fix is allowed, there is less incentive to find > the correct fix. true. doesn't mean that we have to fall into that hole. > - If the problem isn't understood, th

Re: iproute package + HTB qdisc

2002-04-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Juan Cespedes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.02.2056 +0200]: > The HTP queuing discipline has been added to the latest Debian iproute > package, to be installed in "unstable" in a few hours. you rock! -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-04-02 Thread martin f krafft
dear list, look, i am really not here to start a flame war and heck no, i don't want one. please excuse if my behaviour has been leading you onto this belief (or maybe not). i am simply failing to grasp the arguments laid out by wichert. that is, i don't disagree with him per se, but i have the fe

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-04-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.04.02.1250 +0200]: > I does, and in fact it's a very good approach: make sure you study > what the real problem is instead of trying to fix things with bandaid. wrong. fix things with bandaid to give you more time to find the real problem. i a

Re: on potato's proftpd

2002-04-02 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Wichert Akkerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.03.31.2009 +0200]: > Because it might impact other packages as well. sure, but the upload won't. > I'ld rather make sure we don't have a bug in multiple packages then > a reasonably harmless semi-bug in a single package. that's a purist appr

Re:

2002-01-15 Thread martin f krafft
hallo supamann, also sprach Anton Feldmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.15.1356 +0100]: > Sehr geehrte Programm bereitsteller, ^ wunderschoen. beautiful word. available-maker. tztztz > mein Name ist Anton Feldmann. Ich hätte gerne von ihnen gewust wann > woody

Re: Vanishing /usr/doc symlink

2002-01-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Colin Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.15.1301 +0100]: > The original plan said that base-files would still contain it. Otherwise > we're in the situation where upgrades from potato will have /usr/doc but > new installs of woody won't, which is exactly what i deem the current situat

Re: pcmcia-modules in woody

2002-01-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Lauri Tischler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.15.1240 +0100]: > pcmcia-modules for kernels 2.19 and 2.20 dont exist. > Whats up duck ? are you talking to me? pcmcia-modules have, AFAIK, been discontinued. these days, you have to get pcmcia-source and kernel-source, and co

Re: Vanishing /usr/doc symlink

2002-01-15 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.15.0413 +0100]: > I just upgraded my unstable system today. In the process, my /usr/doc > -> /usr/share/doc symlink disappeared. I didn't notice till > afterwards, but I'm pretty sure that's what did it. (It was there > yesterday, and it's u

Re: bind9-chroot again

2002-01-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.15.0305 +0100]: > I vote yes for the Debconfy bit. I chroot it by hand, and I find it > insanely nifty, even though bind9 isn't plagued by the same security > problems bind is. Helps me sleep better at night, or something. okay. what's your st

bind9-chroot again

2002-01-14 Thread martin f krafft
remember: http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2001/debian-devel-200109/msg01393.html well, i have just installed a couple of bind9, and i am *tired* of chrooting them by hand. can we please have a final vote on whether chrooting bind should be a debconf option of the bind9 package, or whether i c

Re: OpenPKG vs. APT

2002-01-13 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Will Lowe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.13.2037 +0100]: > > Is there any deb available for it? > > Not currently. If there's a lot of demand I'll package it, but it > seemed silly to bloat the Packages file further by making a .deb > containing 139 lines of perl. this runs from my cro

Re: Scheduled downtime for murphy.debian.org(lists.debian.org)

2002-01-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.0351 +0100]: > The time for this maintenance is scheduled for Friday, January 11, at > 9pm UTC. This is 3pm local time, for murphy. cool! finally a better reason to stop writing debian list mail than work ;) -- martin; (greeting

Re: squirrelmail: apache/php and register_globals

2002-01-10 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.11.0253 +0100]: > > the php.ini setting works perfectly, *unless* you try to override it, in > > which case it will *always* and *automatically*, without warning, and > > without futher ado, turn itself off by the time that the f

squirrelmail: apache/php and register_globals

2002-01-10 Thread martin f krafft
i know that this should probably go upstream or to the apache mailing list(s), but spare me the time and trouble, i consider it more important to report it at least somewhere... and maybe this is just debian-related... i upgraded to squirrelmail 1.2.2 with the .deb package from the webpage[1] (had

Unidentified subject!

2002-01-10 Thread martin f krafft
merge 125674 125866 merge 127574 128226 thanks after hours of messing with squirrelmail last night, i think i have reason to do this. -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] kill ugly radio

Re: postfix/postfix-tls vs. smtpd bug

2002-01-08 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Dominik Kubla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.1042 +0100]: > I simply see no need to have them both installed at the same time. > Make them conflict. (smtpd is intended to isolate sendmail on firewalls. > Postfix does not need this since it already is modular...) valid point, but i wan

Re: do what? kdm installs gnome?

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.0309 +0100]: > > how does kdebase fix this? by providing x-session-manager? > the kdm binary package is part of the kdebase source package... > kdebase already provides x-session-manager exactly. so how does kdebase want to fix this

Re: do what? kdm installs gnome?

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Daniel Stone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.0214 +0100]: > No, because a kdebase upload will be made today to fix it. :) how does kdebase fix this? by providing x-session-manager? -- martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> m

Re: do what? kdm installs gnome?

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Gustavo Noronha Silva <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.0105 +0100]: > I think kdm should depend on: > > kdebase | x-session-manager | x-window-manager file bug should i? bug should i file? should file i bug? bug file i should? file should i bug? okay, that suffices. -- martin;

Re: Appropriate? mutt/mailx requires mail-transport-agent

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.08.0005 +0100]: > My objection is simply that while there is a need for an available > SMTP server, there is no need for it to be local. I'm going to look > into some alternatives and post a recommendation. i don't think mutt comes with S

Re: Question before buying GNU Debian

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Christian Banik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.2157 +0100]: > So it isn't possible to support the (original Linux) GNU Debian > project by buying a CD package? I'm a Student and have not so much > money but if it would help You I would buy one! sehr gut! at the risk of being flamed or

Re: postfix/postfix-tls vs. smtpd bug

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.1859 +0100]: > That would be completely inconsistent with all other Postfix > installations out there and rather non-obvious when you try and look it > up in the common case where only Postfix is installed. [also answering dominik's post] oka

do what? kdm installs gnome?

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
piper:~# apt-get install kdm Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: gnome-core gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session libgdk-pixbuf-gnome2 libpanel-applet0 libscrollkeeper0 scrollkeeper The following NEW packages will

Re: postfix/postfix-tls vs. smtpd bug

2002-01-07 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.07.1705 +0100]: > smtpd in postfix is a private executable, so it has far less precedence than > the one in smtpd. On the other hand, the postfix manpages are crucial to > figure out what the hell a config option really does, so

postfix/postfix-tls vs. smtpd bug

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
hi folks, should i file this bug against both packages, or which one should get precedence? i feel like postfix will be losing out... dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/smtpd_2.0-4_i386.deb trying to overwrite `/usr/share/man/man8/smtpd.8.gz', which is also in package postfix-tls co

Re: packaging spambouncer - cronjob updates in /usr???

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Carlos Laviola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.2034 +0100]: > > if i package spambouncer so that a configurable cronjob obtains updates > > on the anti-spam rules and databases from the spambouncer website, then > > the files can't remain in /usr, right? > > Are you sure you want to do

Re: packaging spambouncer - cronjob updates in /usr???

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Adam Majer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.2013 +0100]: > The changing things go in /var/lib/spambouncer or something... If > there are executables, these should go into /usr/bin or /usr/sbin or > something. the entire package consists of procmail recipes, which are changing. there are

packaging spambouncer - cronjob updates in /usr???

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
if i package spambouncer so that a configurable cronjob obtains updates on the anti-spam rules and databases from the spambouncer website, then the files can't remain in /usr, right? the primary candidate for installation of spambouncer is /usr/share/spambouncer, but /usr/lib/spambouncer might be

Re: Bug#126856: kernel-package: kernel-image should deal with flavours just like modules packages

2002-01-06 Thread martin f krafft
reopen 126856 severity 126856 serious thanks [cc'ing to debian-devel for comments.] [please refer to bug 126856 for background info.] also sprach Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.06.1016 +0100]: > Wrong. Read the documentation on the Flavours before using > it. This is the rea

Re: Debian.rpm

2002-01-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach David B Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.04.1811 +0100]: > Well, what you're suggesting isn't really feasible ;) why not? it would be a horrible debugging cycle, but you can totally replace an operating system with an RPM... > But it would be feasible to package up a Debian chroot

Re: Debian.rpm

2002-01-04 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Valentijn Sessink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.04.1255 +0100]: > A friend of mine runs RedHat and told me "but I configure it with vi". > I told him - jokingly - that I prefered Debian and joe. He answered > "Hmm, Debian, what's that for a package? Maybe there's an .rpm of it". > > Ma

Re: Size of file changes when uploading to ftp servers.

2002-01-03 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Eric Van Buggenhaut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2002.01.04.0101 +0100]: > 75337cc8ad3a21e3eb46e31fa24d5393 1000617 crafty_18.12-4.diff.gz > fb8740eea8c993d911521da4e3585edf 1000616 crafty_18.12-4.diff.gz >^^^ > > Anyone understands this ? they have

Re: Bug#126750: klogd should optionally be started from init(8)

2001-12-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Tommi Virtanen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.29.2035 +0100]: > IMHO the right solution is to slowly replace sysvinit's init.d > with something that can monitor whether the children are still > alive. For _everything_. ntpdate??? for instance... surely not everything,

Re: Preparing a Proposal: 3 DD needed for every NEW package

2001-12-29 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Alex Pennace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.29.1212 +0100]: > As far as this proposal applies to free software, how does this serve > the interests of the free software community? (See section 4 of the > Debian Social Contract.) My opinion is this policy is an > unneeded hurdle that needs

Re: flavours and modules: /lib confusion

2001-12-28 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Guy Geens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.28.1648 +0100]: > This was a bug in kernel-package, but it should be fixed now. > > (kernel-package 7.75) okay, i got 7.76 yesterday because of the failure to build kernel-source. nevertheless, it isn't fixed: [abridged...] piper% dpkg -l ke

flavours and modules: /lib confusion

2001-12-27 Thread martin f krafft
hi folks, i am using a separate machine to compile kernels and module packages. the arguments to make-kpkg are --revision with an increasing revision number, and --flavour, where i specify the machine name. the result is e.g. a kernel-image-2.4.17+fishbowl package. now, i am also compiling pcmcia-

Re: Bug#126498: ITP: spambouncer -- a powerful user-based anti-spam solution

2001-12-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Robert van der Meulen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.26.1922 +0100]: > > > "You grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a > > > fever." > > where's that from? > 'dead flag blues', by Godspeed you black emperor! i knew that, you joker :) just needed a refreshment... (ma

Re: Bug#126498: ITP: spambouncer -- a powerful user-based anti-spam solution

2001-12-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Mark Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.26.1822 +0100]: > You'd also need a method for handling systems on dialup connections. sure. /etc/ppp/ip-up.d in that case... as in: if dialup, the cron job would simply drop a file in there every week, which would delete itself after a successfu

Re: Bug#126498: ITP: spambouncer -- a powerful user-based anti-spam solution

2001-12-26 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.26.1724 +0100]: > Maybe the answer is obvious to experienced package developers, but what > is the "easy way" you plan to handle SpamBouncer's frequent updates? i was simply thinking of a cronjob that received ftp updates and installs them...

Bug#126498: ITP: spambouncer -- a powerful user-based anti-spam solution

2001-12-26 Thread martin f krafft
Package: wnpp Version: N/A; reported 2001-12-26 Severity: wishlist * Package name: spambouncer Version : 1.4 Upstream Author : Catherine A. Hampton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> * URL : http://www.spambouncer.org * License : GPL Description : a powerful user-based a

Re: Need some shell scripting help

2001-12-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Adam Olsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.23.1822 +0100]: > > fishbowl:..b/pantsfullofunix.net> print -l * > > adequacy.org_hacker.html > > index.html > > mirror/ > > ms_white/ > > www.unix-vs-nt.org/ > > fishbowl:..b/pantsfullofunix.net> > > You mean like ls -1 ? pretty much ;) -- m

Re: Need some shell scripting help

2001-12-23 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Torsten Landschoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2001.12.23.1755 +0100]: > > print -l * > > What should this do in your opinion? For me, print is something > quite different: it's a shell built-in of zsh, and -l prints the arguments as newlines instead of separated by spaces. fishbowl:..b/pa

Re: A language by any other name

2001-09-26 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Duncan Findlay (on Wed, 26 Sep 2001 08:54:40PM -0400): > But, putting my own radical beliefs aside, I think that English should > definitely be an alias for en_GB, seeing how "American" really isn't "English" > per se. agreed! martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.

Re: Why I can not go ahead with IMP?

2001-09-26 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach bart bunting (on Thu, 27 Sep 2001 10:32:52AM +1000): > I have a long standing open ITP for squirrelmail. For various reasons > I am unable to finish the package to my satisfaction and have been > looking for someone to take it on. I have a mostly finished package > with a couple of sm

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-26 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Christian Kurz (on Tue, 25 Sep 2001 10:11:07AM +0200): > But having a link from either the config-files in /etc/bind to $CHROOT > or in the other direction, could be in my opinion a security risk. In my > opinion there should be absolutely no link from $CHROOT to any file > outside the

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-26 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Junichi Uekawa (on Wed, 26 Sep 2001 09:23:32PM +0900): > By the way, are we talking about running bind as non-root > inside a chroot, or > are we talking about running bind as root inside a chroot? is that a serious question? just *why* would you ever run bind9 as root? martin;

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-26 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Tollef Fog Heen (on Wed, 26 Sep 2001 10:25:15AM +0200): > The right way is, imho, the way postfix deals with it. It took quite > some time before I discovered it chrooted itself. i disagree stronlgy mainly because of things like tripwire, which i think should be scanning *everything*

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-25 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Wichert Akkerman (on Tue, 25 Sep 2001 03:57:49AM +0200): > > And scratch the second-most important feature of Debian (the first one being > > the DFSG)? Do Not Move Config Files Out Of /etc. Ever. If you need it > > elsewhere, at least leave a symbolic link in place. > > bind mounts.

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-25 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Christian Kurz (on Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:59:13PM +0200): > Hm, that doesn't make much sense too me. I think the best thing would be > to have /etc/bind inside $CHROOT and having no symlink. except if you want to enable the usual /etc/bind/ editing of conf-files, which would make adminis

Fwd: WiadomoÅÄ nie mogÅa byÄ dostarczona

2001-09-24 Thread Martin F Krafft
could we temporarily unsubscribe this dude until he clears out his mailbox? please! - Forwarded message from Tomek Zubilew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Date: 24 Sep 2001 14:42:30 GMT From: "Tomek Zubilew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-24 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Christian Kurz (on Mon, 24 Sep 2001 10:31:54AM +0200): > So you want to force everyone who is interested in running this chroot > to use a kernel 2.4.x at least? That's in my opinion a not acceptable > solution, since the decision which kernel is used, should never be > depending on a c

Re: Chroots (was: bind9-chroot)

2001-09-23 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Itai Zukerman (on Sun, 23 Sep 2001 01:24:30PM -0400): > Why? My exim uses cyrdeliver to get mail to cyrus. I believe this > means they both need to be in the same chroot. then that's bad programming. you should well be able to make them communicate via TCP or a local socket. and espe

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-23 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Marco d'Itri (on Sun, 23 Sep 2001 11:47:33AM +0200): > There are no packaging changes needed. > To chroot bind you just have to fix $OPTS in /etc/init.d/bind9 and > create the two mount binds I described earlier. marco is right, following his advice, i just chrooted my bind in the most

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Bryan Andersen (on Sat, 22 Sep 2001 05:42:23PM -0500): > For even better security, just make the standard install chrooted > if it is of wise security reasons to. I've long questioned why > this hasn't been done for many daemons already. I know some people > may feel that because it

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Richard Atterer (on Sat, 22 Sep 2001 10:03:55PM +0200): > What alternative possibilities for implementing this do you see? The > package will have to contain the necessary chrooting script somewhere, > and the admin will have to perform some action to trigger its > execution. After he h

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Bdale Garbee (on Sat, 22 Sep 2001 12:06:37PM -0600): > Eee. Diversions are so, well, messy. I think the obvious right > way to handle this is to add debconf support to the bind9 package > asking whether to run in a chroot or not, and if the answer is yes, > just do it. As has bee

Re: bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-22 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Richard Atterer (on Sat, 22 Sep 2001 03:28:21PM +0200): > One idea: In a configuration file, the user lists those daemons he > wants to run chrooted. init.d scripts that support it read this > information and act on it, copying the required files to a chroot > before starting the daemon

madison

2001-09-21 Thread Martin F Krafft
madison seems to be what the debian.org webpage sports as the package search over distributions. is it packaged? do you need someone to package it? martin; (greetings from the heart of the sun.) \ echo mailto: !#^."<*>"|tr "<*> mailto:"; [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- if god had meant fo

bind9-chroot (was: questions on ITP)

2001-09-21 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Bdale Garbee (on Thu, 20 Sep 2001 06:00:59PM -0600): > > bind9-chroot -- convert a bind9 installation to a chroot'd one > > What does this package do? I have offered numerous times to accept a patch > for the bind9 package to optionally implement chroot installation and nobody > ha

questions on ITP

2001-09-20 Thread Martin F Krafft
hi guys, i am not yet an official maintainer, but i do already have an advocate and sponsor (Colin - what's the status?) however, in the mean time i am happily packaging along and submitting ITP's to bugs.debian.org the proper way. However, not once has one of these ITPs reached the debian-devel l

Re: OT: Re: Fwd: Re: uptime

2001-09-16 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Jeremy Zawodny (on Sun, 16 Sep 2001 03:29:15PM -0700): > > > The Policy Editor, OTOH, is quite nice. > > > > sure, but there are better. i forgot the name of the one i have in > > mind, i'll post it tomorrow from the office. > > Please don't. It's already off-topic. well, the one i

Fwd: Re: uptime

2001-09-16 Thread Martin F Krafft
woops. that went to -user... sorry... - Forwarded message from Martin F Krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - also sprach Robert Waldner (on Mon, 17 Sep 2001 12:01:26AM +0200): > Not to give NT any honour, but that´s probably FW-1. It runs reasonably > (for commercial-firewall-softw

Re: neat mutt bug.

2001-09-16 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Adam McKenna (on Sun, 16 Sep 2001 03:17:37AM -0700): > Interesting highlighting bug in mutt -- could confuse an unsuspecting person > into thinking Branden actually signed this. oooh. this is ugly. reported it to bugtraq? if not bugtraq, then at least michael elkins should know... mar

apache-debian going live

2001-09-15 Thread Martin F Krafft
whatever the call is on how we should proceed in terms of Debian apache package task force, i have created a mailing list, webpage, and cvs repository for the crew. you can subscribe at https://lists.madduck.net/mailman/listinfo/debian-apache you can post with debian-apache at pantsfullof

Re: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force

2001-09-15 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Ardo van Rangelrooij (on Fri, 14 Sep 2001 07:06:52PM -0500): > Please do. Something like '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' or so? I'm still gonna > file against lists.debian.org. Once that is created we can move over. Do you > also support archiving? That would be really great. alright. doing s

Re: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force

2001-09-14 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Ardo van Rangelrooij (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 10:33:39PM -0500): > - filing a request for the mailing list i'll set one up. filing against lists.debian.org takes too long. > - putting together a web page similar to that of the X Strike Force >with a link to the packages and their bu

Re: mirror-operators please help

2001-09-13 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Brandon L. Griffith (on Thu, 13 Sep 2007 06:03:10PM -0400): > It was just recently posted here: Oohara Yuuma wrote a short, but > decent HOWTO on doing this. You can find it at > http://www.interq.or.jp/libra/oohara/apt-gettable/apt-gettable/index.html i know this much and made it work

mirror-operators please help

2001-09-13 Thread Martin F Krafft
assuming that i have a local mirror of the entire debian and debian-non-US trees, how can i rebuild the Packages.gz files myself? reason that my link is slow, and keeping the mirror up to date takes time and causes differences between Packages.gz and packages present. so i figure i'll just make the

Re: proposal for an Apache (web server) task force

2001-09-13 Thread Martin F Krafft
also sprach Ardo van Rangelrooij (on Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:42:44AM) > I would like to propose to form an Apache (web server) task force to > maintain the Apache packages currently maintained by Johnie Ingram > (netgod) (and potentially related packages if the need arises). count me in. > I also pro

ITP: webreport

2001-09-03 Thread Martin F Krafft
first of all, is this the right way to do ITP's? i just simply sent a mail... second, and mainly, i would like to package WebReport for debian. it may be found at http://www.inter7.com/webreport/ and i could not find it in the current dist, and wnpp system seems down on debian.org. anyway, web re

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