Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 03:19:34PM -0800, Lawrence Walton wrote: Craig I meant you need those things to have a smtp HOST. You know; to send and recive email, I was not commenting about DUL in any form. So to say I was spreadding FUD is foolish, maybe you could of asked for more

Re: first draft aptitude howto

2000-03-30 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:03:42PM +, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: I see you need to know a lot of keys. I think that is non-intuitive; a full screen interface should have pulldown menus (perhaps with shortcuts), a command line interface has switches. Well, actually pull down menus are

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 04:41:15PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: debian developers should have the option of a uucp account from one of the debian servers (trivially easy for us to set up). I think we have been over this in various forms, I don't

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:36:37AM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: yep. the DUL lists dynamic (dialup) IPs, it doesn't list static IPs. that's why it's called the MAPS Dialup User List. Well then I have to agree, DUL is bad, because it's near impossible

[Q] Recompiling packages for i686

2000-03-30 Thread Sudhakar Chandrasekharan
Hi, I've heard that software compiled with optimizations for a particular processor (say, i686) boosts performance by as much as 20%. I was wondering what is the best approach to take if I want to automatically download src, compile and install all the packages that are currently installed on my

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: DUL is very effective in doing that. it prevents spammers from hiding their activities from their ISP...which ensures that they will be caught and their account nuked very promptly. Okay, I see this point, however, I do have a problem with the

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:17:55AM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: DUL is very effective in doing that. it prevents spammers from hiding their activities from their ISP...which ensures that they will be caught and their account nuked very promptly.

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Steve Greenland
On 29-Mar-00, 15:21 (CST), Lawrence Walton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Nils: you still need a DNS named, static, route-able IP to be your own host. I have DNS named, *dynamic*, routable IP -- thanks to the good folks at dyndns.org. The only bad thing is that the reverse DNS isn't consistent. I'm

Re: Signing Packages.gz

2000-03-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 01:12:39PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Well, it'd be nice to be able to do so, to verify that a mirror hasn't been compromised, but no, you're right. Actually I don't care that much if the mirror is compromised, if it affects only packages that I don't install.

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Mark Brown
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 04:41:15PM -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: [Providing reliable SMTP services to people on dialup IP, eg UUCP-over-TCP] It would be better for someone else to provide a service like this. I have to say I'm extremely surprised that if ISPs in the US are as incompetant as

Advice on inetd Denial of Service Bug

2000-03-30 Thread Anthony Towns
Hello world, inetd currently has a bug (Bug#60770) whereby internal services (in particular discard/tcp) that fork don't close their inherited listening sockets. This means that if: * [EMAIL PROTECTED] telnets to debian.victim.com port 9 (discard/sink/null) *

Re: Advice on inetd Denial of Service Bug

2000-03-30 Thread Ben Collins
Unfortunately I can't think of a reasonable way of checking for this in the preinst. The shell code I posted to the bug report works okay for testing, but it'll report existing connections that are perfectly reasonable, rather than just programs listening where they shouldn't be, so it's not

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:58:22AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: [snip] Why did you CC me? I read the list. Please control yourself. -- G. Branden Robinson| The basic test of freedom is perhaps Debian GNU/Linux | less in what we are free to do than in [EMAIL

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:25:03AM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: Branden: You might consider getting a static. The only way to live, imho. ;-) You guys can stop CC'ing me any day now; I read the lists. And BTW, I've stated several times that I *do* have a static IP. I suppose you guys are too

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Branden Robinson
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:34:05AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:17:55AM +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: NILS JEPPE, CRAIG SANDERS: PLEASE STOP CC'ING ME ON LIST MAILS. -- G. Branden Robinson| The greatest productive force is human Debian GNU/Linux

Re: Advice on inetd Denial of Service Bug

2000-03-30 Thread Herbert Xu
Anthony Towns aj@azure.humbug.org.au wrote: Unfortunately I can't think of a reasonable way of checking for this in the preinst. The shell code I posted to the bug report works okay for testing, but it'll report existing connections that are perfectly reasonable, rather than just programs

Re: no freeramdisk? - util-linux

2000-03-30 Thread Edward Betts
Eric Delaunay [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm attempting to write support for scsidev at boot time in conjonction with a fork of hwtools to create a new scsitools package that will provide only the scsi stuff of hwtools and compile on non-i386 Debian architectures. However, my scripts will

[package] drakxtools; diskdrake partition manager

2000-03-30 Thread bug1
Hi, ive made my first debian package, Mandrakes drakxtools, it contains a number of configuration tools, but my primary reason for packaging is to provide diskdrake. Diskdrake is a graphical partition manager, it allows resizing parititions etc. I originally thought this would be good during

Re: Advice on inetd Denial of Service Bug

2000-03-30 Thread Anthony Towns
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 02:35:43PM +1000, Herbert Xu wrote: As to the dependency on fuser, hmm, now what's that thing called netstat(1) which happens to be in your package and also happens to have a flag called -p? :) *blush* On the upside, netstat also distinguishes between listening and

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Marc Haber
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000 17:15:56 -0600, you wrote: Couldn't the original Received: headers be renamed to X-Received: (or something like that; although I could figure out how to make that happen with formail I don't know my mail headers well enough to know if X-Received is already used by something

GNU/Linux vs. Linux

2000-03-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Ok folks, why is Debian called GNU/Linux instead of simply Linux? Is that documented somewhere? On a web-page, faq, other document? Regards, Joey -- The good thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. -- Andrew S. Tanenbaum Please always Cc to me when

Re: GNU/Linux vs. Linux

2000-03-30 Thread Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok folks, why is Debian called GNU/Linux instead of simply Linux? Is that documented somewhere? On a web-page, faq, other document? IIRC, Debian was originally funded by the FSF, who wouldn't have it any other way. Leavinger personal opinions aside in

Re: GNU/Linux vs. Linux

2000-03-30 Thread Martin Schulze
Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok folks, why is Debian called GNU/Linux instead of simply Linux? Is that documented somewhere? On a web-page, faq, other document? IIRC, Debian was originally funded by the FSF, who wouldn't have it any other way.

Re: GNU/Linux vs. Linux

2000-03-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 11:59:07PM -0800, Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote: Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ok folks, why is Debian called GNU/Linux instead of simply Linux? Is that documented somewhere? On a web-page, faq, other document? IIRC, Debian was originally funded by the

Re: GNU/Linux vs. Linux

2000-03-30 Thread Peter Makholm
Martin Schulze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-basic_defs.html#s-gnu I've read that before. I'm to new of a developer to know anything. But isn't the story that Debian started with strong connections to FSF, dropped them and then after a long flamefest reestablished

How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?

2000-03-30 Thread lorenzo . zampese
How can I hide/show the cursor on a generic text terminal (xterms included), without using the famous 'ncurses' libraries ? And about colors and text scrolling ? I found an interesting document on internet (unix programmer FAQ v1.31) concerning how to program terminals, tasks, mailing, etc., but

Re: How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?

2000-03-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:18:31AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I hide/show the cursor on a generic text terminal (xterms included), without using the famous 'ncurses' libraries ? use ncurses, then you don't have to make any hard-coded assumptions about the terminal's capabilities.

dwww: cat and file (pipe race condition)

2000-03-30 Thread Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler
Hi, I'm reading my system documentation with dwww. However, with current potato/woody versions of dwww and file I have trouble for some files (i.e the web server hangs and reports a timeout) Examples for bad files are

Re: Permissions/ownerships of /cdrom and /floppy

2000-03-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Bruce Perens wrote: Permissions on mount points don't seem to make much difference. I was able to mount a filesystem on a mount point with mode 0, and once mounted the permissions come from the mounted filesystem, not the mount point. While we are at it, is there a

latest basefiles package...

2000-03-30 Thread Stefan Ott
hello i just upgraded my woody system using with apt-get (http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free) and now my consoles say Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (frozen) instead of Debian GNU/Linux woody ... i guess this is a packaging whoops-this-was-the-wrong-string problem... regards

Re: What's changed in su/bash? bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
Josh Wilmes wrote: Are you possibly out of memory? (perhaps a process has run away and gobbled it up)? No; the problem is only if I try to get an interactive su session: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat /proc/meminfo total:used:free: shared: buffers: cached: Mem:

Re: What's changed in su/bash? bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-03-30 Thread Josh Wilmes
Interesting. Try ulimit -a. Any strange limits set? --Josh Josh Wilmes wrote: Are you possibly out of memory? (perhaps a process has run away and gobbl ed it up)? No; the problem is only if I try to get an interactive su session: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cat

Re: How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?

2000-03-30 Thread lorenzo . zampese
Thank you - The ones you called weenie dos programmer were not so weenie, because the old Ms-dos worked on PCs with a Ibm 80x25 terminal in the 90-95% of cases. Then that assumption was a standard de facto... Anyway, you didn't answer to my question !

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-03-30 Thread Stephen Early
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Branden Robinson wrote: Mar 29 15:20:15 apocalypse sendmail[7886]: e2T8qEi03048: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .greenend.org.uk, ctladdr=branden (1000/1000), delay=11:28:01, xdelay =00:00:21, mailer=esmtp, pri=6332789, relay=chiark.greenend.org.uk. [195.224.76.132], dsn=4.2.0,

Re: What's changed in su/bash? bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
Josh Wilmes wrote: Interesting. Try ulimit -a. Any strange limits set? Not that I can see: [EMAIL PROTECTED] su Password: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ulimit -a core file size (blocks) unlimited data seg size (kbytes) unlimited file size (blocks) unlimited max

Re: Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.

2000-03-30 Thread Ian Jackson
Branden Robinson writes (Ian Jackson, please get me the hell off your blacklist.): Mar 29 15:20:15 apocalypse sendmail[7886]: e2T8qEi03048: [EMAIL PROTECTED], ctladdr=branden (1000/1000), delay=11:28:01, xdelay=00:00:21, mailer=esmtp, pri=6332789, relay=chiark.greenend.org.uk.

Re: Advice on inetd Denial of Service Bug

2000-03-30 Thread Paul Slootman
On Thu 30 Mar 2000, Herbert Xu wrote: As to the dependency on fuser, hmm, now what's that thing called netstat(1) which happens to be in your package and also happens to have a flag called -p? :) $ man netstat [...] SYNOPSIS netstat [-venaoc] [--tcp|-t] [--udp|-u]

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Craig Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: most of the recent spam would have been blocked by using MAPS RSS (relays.mail-abuse.org), though...and not by MAPS DUL. IMO, we should use both. individually they are quite effective in blocking spam, but they are even better when used together.

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Eric Weigel
This spam issue is so political. If you're stuck with a service provider who has a crappy mail service, and/or who has your IP listed on the DUL, I'll offer a solution. I run an ISP in Canada. We offer shell accounts, on a machine running Debian Potato, for a reasonable price ($10/month, or

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:12:10PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Before all useful points are lost in the flamage, may I suggest that a X-Filtered-By: DUL or similar header be added to all list mail? Apparently qmail can't do that out of the box. Yes, we are still being hypocritical

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:34:05AM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: b) use uucp-over-tcp (requires uucp account somewhere) c) use smtp-over-ssh (requires shell account somewhere) Can someone point me to any references on setting up either of these. I had to give up my static IP and often have

Re: GNU/Linux vs. Linux

2000-03-30 Thread Michael Meskes
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:53:38AM +0200, Peter Makholm wrote: I've read that before. I'm to new of a developer to know anything. But isn't the story that Debian started with strong connections to FSF, It did. Ian Murdock did work for the FSF early on. dropped them and then after a long

(Bug horizon) Problem bugs

2000-03-30 Thread Richard Braakman
The following packages have survived the bug horizon, in some cases twice, because they are too important to drop. These bugs will delay the release of potato. Package: boot-floppies (debian/main). Maintainer: Debian Install System Team debian-boot@lists.debian.org 58266 [fixed in CVS] PCMCIA

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread David N. Welton
Is there any kind of database to filter out time-wasting, vitriolic arguments full of personal attacks, about things that have nothing to do with Debian? I guess there is, but come on people, enough is enough. Just hit the delete key and get over it. There are tons of things to do to make

Re: latest basefiles package...

2000-03-30 Thread Santiago Vila
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Stefan Ott wrote: i just upgraded my woody system using with apt-get (http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free) and now my consoles say Debian GNU/Linux 2.2 (frozen) instead of Debian GNU/Linux woody ... i guess this is a packaging

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Alexander Koch
On Wed, 29 March 2000 14:31:50 -0700, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: This is deliberately removed, we had some problems a year or so ago with the received lines getting too long for some mailers. We are looking at putting them back. There are some sites out there that have a limit of 15 and you are

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Alexander Koch
On Thu, 30 March 2000 05:53:20 -0500, Eric Weigel wrote: If you're stuck with a service provider who has a crappy mail service, and/or who has your IP listed on the DUL, I'll offer a solution. Also uucp over tcp/ip is offered for quite a small monthly charge at cid.net, have whatever hostname

Re: Fwd: Re: unable to execute

2000-03-30 Thread Russell Coker
On Tue, 28 Mar 2000, Tristan Savatier wrote: It works (well runs, I have no VCDs to test with at work) and display help (mtvp -h). Even the graphical intreface works too. That .deb was mtv_1.1.0.20-2_i386.deb When I install the glibc2.1 version (mtv_1.1.0.20-3_i386.deb) it promptly fails.

Re: Packages removed from potato

2000-03-30 Thread Adrian Bunk
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Richard Braakman wrote: ... Package: libgd-graph-perl (debian/contrib). Maintainer: Piotr Roszatycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] 59442 libgd-graph-perl: Missing files, missing dependencies ... This also takes out rmagic. cu, Adrian -- A No uttered from deepest conviction is

Re: Packages removed from potato

2000-03-30 Thread Richard Braakman
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 03:17:17PM +0200, Adrian Bunk wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Richard Braakman wrote: ... Package: libgd-graph-perl (debian/contrib). Maintainer: Piotr Roszatycki [EMAIL PROTECTED] 59442 libgd-graph-perl: Missing files, missing dependencies ... This also takes

Re: ITP: manpages-da

2000-03-30 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 11:58:39AM +0100, Peter Makholm wrote: In SSLUG (swedish/danish LUG) we have begun translating man-pages to danish. when we have finished a nice set (like file-utils) I will make a debian package out of it. Great! Please, as some of these people tend to use RedHat (yes,

Re: Permissions/ownerships of /cdrom and /floppy

2000-03-30 Thread Peter Palfrader
Hi Santiago! On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Santiago Vila wrote: On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Bruce Perens wrote: Permissions on mount points don't seem to make much difference. I was able to mount a filesystem on a mount point with mode 0, and once mounted the permissions come from the mounted

What happened to rrdtool in potato?

2000-03-30 Thread Alexander Reelsen
Hi I'm wondering why the package 'rrdtool' does not exist anymore for potato? Because it has been to old? Because the older version couldn't built from source? Is it orphaned? (Then I would take it, when becoming a developer). Though it is not listed in prospective-packages.html. Where can I get

Bug#49962: Old and new man pages - clean solution possible.

2000-03-30 Thread Fabrizio Polacco
On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 10:50:07PM +0200, Andreas Krüger wrote: Closing Bug 49962, Raphael Hertzog [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Everything has been said, and there's no clean solution. It would be a crude hack to make (all or most of the) packages conflict with an old man-db simply because

Re: What's changed in su/bash? bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-03-30 Thread Junichi Uekawa
In Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:10:20 +0100, de profundis Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk cum veritas scribat Try from another user : ps axu | grep root | wc and see how many processes root is running ... -- dancer, a.k.a. Junichi Uekawa http://www.netfort.gr.jp/~dancer Dept. of Knowledge

Re: dwww: cat and file (pipe race condition)

2000-03-30 Thread Daniel Martin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ulf Jaenicke-Roessler) writes: It seems, that the problem only occurs with longer (more than 1 chars) files. Looking for the cause of this problem, I found that the line $decompress $file | file -b - | magic2mime in dwww-convert is responsible. Well, if I do a

Re: What happened to rrdtool in potato?

2000-03-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 04:49:20PM +0200, Alexander Reelsen écrivait: I'm wondering why the package 'rrdtool' does not exist anymore for potato? Because it has been to old? No because it had a release critical bug that nobody took care to correct ... even if the bug was trivial to fix. The

Re: Advice on inetd Denial of Service Bug

2000-03-30 Thread Drew Bloechl
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:11:09PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: -p, --programs displays process name and PID of the owner of each socket it dumps. You have to be the owner of such process to have all it's sockets matched to it or generally root user will

quick dpkg-scanpackages

2000-03-30 Thread Nick Cabatoff
Is there any way currently of adding to a Packages file incrementally? Even on a fairly quick machine it takes a while to scan 500 packages, and when I've only changed 1 it'd be nice not to have to wait. If not, I'll be happy to write some code, I just don't want duplication of effort.

Strange behaviour

2000-03-30 Thread Michael Meskes
I usually run my shell with LC_ALL set to de_DE. Calling 'printf %1.1f\n 1' then gives me 1,0 which is the correct answer under the german locale. Now I unset LC_ALL to get the command to print 1.0 but wasn't able to. However, running under strace it works. Finally I tried a subshell but that

Re: What happened to rrdtool in potato?

2000-03-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:23:09PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Is it orphaned? (Then I would take it, when becoming a developer). Though it is not listed in prospective-packages.html. It's not officially orphaned but it's no maintained anymore since the maintainer could have fixed this

Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-30 Thread Franklin Belew
Hi, you may know me from such irc channels as #debian and #debian-devel as Myth. If you have a short temper, don't read this. If you are more advocate about freedom at any cost than RMS, don't read this. If you just ggot done reading the RBL/DUL/ORBS thread, please, don't take your anger out on

Re: (Bug horizon) Problem bugs

2000-03-30 Thread Steve Greenland
On 30-Mar-00, 05:43 (CST), Richard Braakman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The following packages have survived the bug horizon, in some cases twice, because they are too important to drop. These bugs will delay the release of potato. Package: debianutils (debian/main). Maintainer: Guy Maor

Re: Not to get off on a rant here.....

2000-03-30 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Franklin Belew: Hi, you may know me from such irc channels as #debian and #debian-devel as Myth. I'm Troy McClure! Er, no, that's not right. These may sound like the disgruntled ramblings of a frustrated wannabe developer, but I hope you can see where I am coming from. Oh,

Re: (Bug horizon) Problem bugs

2000-03-30 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Richard Braakman: Package: gcc (debian/main). Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58412 r-base: Can't build from source 59819 gcc_2.95.2-7(frozen): fails to compile itself on m68k 61258 missing header files in include/asm on non-i386 architectures May I

Re: What's changed in su/bash? bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-03-30 Thread Brian Greenfield
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:12:12 +0900, Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:10:20 +0100, de profundis Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk cum veritas scribat and see how many processes root is running ... 237! Samba running as a daemon rather than from inetd seems to have

Re: What happened to rrdtool in potato?

2000-03-30 Thread Raphael Hertzog
Le Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:40:31PM -0500, Matt Zimmerman écrivait: It is neither officially orphaned nor 'no maintained anymore'. I have prepared a fixed version, and I am waiting for it to be uploaded by my sponsor. Your email to the BTS did not warrant a reply; you told me how to fix the

Re: (Bug horizon) Problem bugs

2000-03-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:12:27AM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote: According to Richard Braakman: Package: gcc (debian/main). Maintainer: Debian GCC maintainers [EMAIL PROTECTED] 58412 r-base: Can't build from source 59819 gcc_2.95.2-7(frozen): fails to compile itself on m68k 61258

Re: How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?

2000-03-30 Thread Matthias Hertel
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anyway, you didn't answer to my question ! What Craig said about curses was absolutely right, but if you really want to hardwire the codes, look at console_codes(4)linux console /usr/share/doc/xterm/ctlseqs.ms.gz xterm If

Re: debconf: how to configure non-interactive install

2000-03-30 Thread Joey Hess
Thomas Gebhardt wrote: yes, that's what I want to do. My aim is to use FAI (Fully automated installation, cf. http://www.informatik.uni-koeln.de/fai/) for the installation of potato. Currently FAI tries to install the packages non-interactively with the default values (using various

Re: What happened to rrdtool in potato?

2000-03-30 Thread Matt Zimmerman
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 09:22:41PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote: Great, sorry for the confusion, however you could have fixed this RC bug way before the first bug horizon, you haven't done such a good job by taking so long ... I don't want to blame you but RC bugs (and particularly when they

Re: Packages removed from potato

2000-03-30 Thread Remco Blaakmeer
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Richard Braakman wrote: Package: smail (debian/main). Maintainer: Soenke Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] [HELP] Mail to Soenke bounced. 59135 smail: Smail doesn't work with the latest libraries Has anybody been able to reproduce this bug? I have been running smail from xinetd

Re: Bug#59135: Packages removed from potato

2000-03-30 Thread Bart Warmerdam
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 10:01:16PM +0200, Remco Blaakmeer wrote: On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Richard Braakman wrote: Package: smail (debian/main). Maintainer: Soenke Lange [EMAIL PROTECTED] [HELP] Mail to Soenke bounced. 59135 smail: Smail doesn't work with the latest libraries Has

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Hamish Moffatt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:12:10PM +0200, Robert Bihlmeyer wrote: Before all useful points are lost in the flamage, may I suggest that a X-Filtered-By: DUL or similar header be added to all list mail? Apparently qmail can't do that out of

Re: (Bug horizon) Problem bugs

2000-03-30 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Ben Collins: On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:12:27AM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote: May I assume that the latter two bugs will not delay the release of potato for i386? Couldn't be more wrong. Bugs are bugs...a package with a serious bug on a supported arch, affects that package

Re: (Bug horizon) Problem bugs

2000-03-30 Thread Will Lowe
But that makes no sense ... I'm a Debian developer, but I have no access to any m68k machines. Yet potato, which includes some of my work, can't be released ... and I can do nothing about it? According to http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi, you can get an account on kullervo.debian.org.

Re: (Bug horizon) Problem bugs

2000-03-30 Thread Ben Collins
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:02:46PM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote: According to Ben Collins: On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 11:12:27AM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote: May I assume that the latter two bugs will not delay the release of potato for i386? Couldn't be more wrong. Bugs are bugs...a

Re: What's changed in su/bash? bash: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2000-03-30 Thread Oliver Elphick
Brian Greenfield wrote: On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 00:12:12 +0900, Junichi Uekawa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In Thu, 30 Mar 2000 11:10:20 +0100, de profundis Oliver Elphick [EMAIL PROTECTED] x.co.uk cum veritas scribat and see how many processes root is running ... 237! Samba

Re: (Bug horizon) Problem bugs

2000-03-30 Thread Chip Salzenberg
According to Will Lowe: According to http://db.debian.org/machines.cgi, you can get an account on kullervo.debian.org. I hadn't thought to look there. Silly me. -- Chip Salzenberg - a.k.a. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] I wanted to play hopscotch with the impenetrable mystery

Re: Strange behaviour

2000-03-30 Thread Michael Sobolev
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 07:48:00PM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: I usually run my shell with LC_ALL set to de_DE. Usually using LC_ALL is not a very good idea. It's better to use LANG, or, if you want only particular aspects of the program behaviour to be localized, LC_CTYPE, LC_MESSAGE, LC_TIME,

Re: Strange behaviour

2000-03-30 Thread Robert Bihlmeyer
Michael Meskes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I usually run my shell with LC_ALL set to de_DE. Calling 'printf %1.1f\n 1' then gives me 1,0 which is the correct answer under the german locale. Now I unset LC_ALL to get the command to print 1.0 but wasn't able to. printf is a bash builtin. bash

Re: How to hide/show cursor without Ncurses ?

2000-03-30 Thread Craig Sanders
On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 12:22:56PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The ones you called weenie dos programmer were not so weenie, because the old Ms-dos worked on PCs with a Ibm 80x25 terminal in the 90-95% of cases. Then that assumption was a standard de facto... and it was proven to be a

ATTN: pjw@edmc.net

2000-03-30 Thread Joseph Carter
If you wish to email me about any of my packages, do so from an address which does not reject my mail as coming from a dialup IP. My IP is STATIC and your ISP is run by morons who can't tell the difference, even though I am no longer listed on the DUL. I am attempting once and once only to reach

Re: Advice on inetd Denial of Service Bug

2000-03-30 Thread Herbert Xu
Drew Bloechl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 30, 2000 at 01:11:09PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote: -p, --programs displays process name and PID of the owner of each socket it dumps. You have to be the owner of such process to have all it's sockets

Re: WNPP

2000-03-30 Thread Stephen Zander
Michael == Michael Vogt [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael If you like the package :-) Of course. The package lacks Michael a good example /etc/aide.conf. If someone has a nice Michael example, please send it to me. I will include it in the Michael package. Let me know once this