Bug#4130: Old motif applications don't run

1996-08-13 Thread Thomas Koenig
for these things under /usr/X386, as verified with strace. Solution: cd /usr ; ln -s X11R6 X386 -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.

Bug#4151: /etc/cron.daily/smail not removed with smail

1996-08-14 Thread Thomas Koenig
Package: smail Version: 3.1.29.1 When removing smail from the system (in favour of sendmail) with dselect, /etc/cron.daily/smail is not removed. This results in unnecessary mail being sent to root. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find

Bug#4130: Old motif applications don't run

1996-08-14 Thread Thomas Koenig
with the xcompat package, not with motifnls. (And yes, Maple is an a.out binary). Somebody please reassign this bug report, please :-) -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.

Bug#4130: Old motif applications don't run

1996-08-14 Thread Thomas Koenig
no idea of how to set an environment variable from a Debian package (and from which package to do it) I leave it to more capable hands to reassign this bug to whatever package is right (xbase, xcompat, or whatever). -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering

Bug#4202: dpkg chainsaw massacre

1996-08-21 Thread Thomas Koenig
eagerly await what fsck has to say about this. I'll have another go at developing for Debian when that particular bug has been fixed. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.

Bug#4202: It's not that bad...

1996-08-21 Thread Thomas Koenig
--force enabled: trying to overwrite `/usr/lib', which is also in package libgdbm1 Oh well... I'll wait and see what other programs will have mysterious problems now. Seems like I hit ^C fast enough to avoid total lossage. The problem still needs to be fixed, though. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL

Bug#4232: bison dumps core

1996-08-22 Thread Thomas Koenig
Package: bison Version: A2.6-12 The following input file (which contains errors, I know :-) causes bison to dump core. I have no idea wether this is a libc or a bison error. Gdb tells me the following: $ gdb /usr/bin/bison core GDB is free software and you are welcome to distribute copies of

Bug#4233: startx does not initialize X cookies

1996-08-22 Thread Thomas Koenig
way to get a correctly formatted string - possibly od can be persuaded with the right options, or somebody can write a Perl script). -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.

Bug#4233: startx does not initialize X cookies

1996-08-23 Thread Thomas Koenig
I wrote: xauth add :0 . `dd if=/dev/urandom count=1 bs=16 | md5sum` This is an incomplete fix to the problem; the serverargs also need to be set: serverargs=-auth $HOME/.Xauthority -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line

Bug#4292: win32gcc can't exec cc1

1996-08-26 Thread Thomas Koenig
(/usr/i386-unknown-cygwin32/bin/i386-unknown-cygwin32/2.7.2/cc1, X_OK) = -1 ERRNO_2 (No such file or directory) access(/usr/i386-unknown-cygwin32/bin/cc1, X_OK) = -1 ERRNO_2 (No such file or directory) -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find

Bug#4294: gcc -bi486-linux can't find cc1

1996-08-26 Thread Thomas Koenig
/include /usr/i486-linuxaout/include /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i486-linuxaout/2.6.3/include /usr/include End of search list. cc1 /tmp/cca00347.i -quiet -dumpbase hello.c -version -o /tmp/cca00347.s gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED

Bug#4306: gs and rounded corner rectangle

1996-08-27 Thread Thomas Koenig
! fi fi rm -fr _sh19142 exit 0 -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.

Bug#4294: gcc -bi486-linux can't find cc1

1996-08-27 Thread Thomas Koenig
specify the version also as in: gcc -bi486-linuxaout -V2.6.3 Any reason why this should not go into the package description? Other people than me are going to stumble across that particular problem. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find

Bug#4294: gcc -bi486-linux can't find cc1

1996-08-28 Thread Thomas Koenig
David Engel wrote: Thomas Koenig writes: David Engel wrote: $ gcc -bi486-linuxaout hello.c gcc: installation problem, cannot exec `cc1': No such file or directory This isn't a bug. To change a bug into a feature, it needs to be documented. This has been documented for ages. It has

Bug#4318: important TeX fonts missing

1996-08-28 Thread Thomas Koenig
]@H` M```8VUM:3$P\P=+\6!Y``H*!6-MC$P\P;9DZ!2``' 2!-MC?Y```!50+?W]_?W]_? ` end -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.

Bug#4346: Essential LaTeX style files missing

1996-08-30 Thread Thomas Koenig
). The best way would probably be to go through the LaTeX Companion and install everything that's mentioned in there. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram.

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

1997-05-26 Thread Thomas Koenig
Rob Browning wrote: Should the default Debian home dir permissions be changed, should ssh be modified, or what? IMHO, group-writable home directories are a Bad Thing (TM), anyway. They break just about any reasonable multi-user setup by default. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Upgrading from 1.1 to frozen

1997-05-26 Thread Thomas Koenig
to 1.3 this way. They will hate you forever for it. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e

Re: Upgrading from 1.1 to frozen

1997-05-27 Thread Thomas Koenig
not enough. People don't read README files unless these are rammed down their throats. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: Upgrading from 1.1 to frozen

1997-05-27 Thread Thomas Koenig
to look? BTW, I'm really sorry for disregarding the installation instructions for hamm. The fact that they are nowhere to be found is no excuse, I agree. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram

Re: Upcoming Debian Releases

1997-05-28 Thread Thomas Koenig
Bo is currently a release candidate. It will become an official release as soon as the testing group okays it. What about Bug #10165? Is not being able to boot after an upgrade critical? -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line

Where should users have their temp files?

1997-05-28 Thread Thomas Koenig
. One possible solution would be to give each user a personal /var/tmp/username, mode 700, and have as many functions (mktemp, ...) return a string to there. Loss: a few inodes. Gain: fewer security holes. Comments? -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering

Re: RFC: Policy for arch specs

1997-06-01 Thread Thomas Koenig
Guy Maor wrote: [gcc 2.7.2] I don't think it does any optimization at all for pentium. Correct. Of course, there's the experimental pgcc (http://www.goof.com/, if anybody wants to look). I'd like to pack this up and stuff it into experimental, if I had a little more time *sigh*. -- Thomas

Re: RFC: Policy for arch specs

1997-06-02 Thread Thomas Koenig
at the moment (large patch files, lots of code reorganization) seems to indicate so. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: cygwin.dll license (was Re: FreeQt ?)

1997-06-02 Thread Thomas Koenig
license (pretty much BSD-like). -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL

Re: libc6 policy in unstable

1997-06-09 Thread Thomas Koenig
Guy Maor wrote: Must all new programs goint into unstable be linked with libc6? Since Debian 2.0 is meant to be a libc6 system, the answer is yes. If this is indeed a requirement, at is now orphaned. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find

Re: libc6 policy in unstable

1997-06-09 Thread Thomas Koenig
I didn't meant to imply that libc5 packages will be rejected. Ok, thanks for clearing that up :-) -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word

How do we encourage bug reports?

1997-06-09 Thread Thomas Koenig
products don't expect that anybody cares for bugs). What can be done? I'd suggest putting the support addresses (mailing list, web pages) prominently into the installation routines, and possibly even into the MOTD. What else? -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy

Re: Status of Debian Policy

1997-06-15 Thread Thomas Koenig
. And the changed required would not be #ifdef debian, but #ifdef SYSV. Much better IMO. The preferred method should be #ifdef HAVE_FUNCTIONNAME (via autoconf). #ifdef sysname is evil. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic

Re: Package priorities and dependencies.

1997-06-15 Thread Thomas Koenig
, you're right :-) -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: Package priorities and dependencies.

1997-06-15 Thread Thomas Koenig
, so check that first # to get the right answer into the cache. I'll file a bug against autoconf when I have investigated this a bit more. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Debian's mail daemons

1997-06-18 Thread Thomas Koenig
. This is not something I'd like to see as Debian default. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: at_3.1.7-3_i386.changes REJECTED

1997-06-19 Thread Thomas Koenig
-upload at_3.1.7.orig.tar.gz (or copy it from bo), but it's already in stable. Is this a bug in the installation script? -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST

Re: RFC: Virtual Package Name List (was bug #10676)

1997-06-19 Thread Thomas Koenig
Mark Eichin wrote: xcompat is dead (ie. it dates from when those were valid... since no current packages need those virtual names, xcompat isn't needed either.) I need xcompat to run Maple VR3. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight

Re: checker libs with debugging symbols

1997-06-20 Thread Thomas Koenig
); return 0; } If you feed it a line that's too long, the access violation will happen deep within the C library. Without debugging symbols, it's hard to know wether this is a bug in the C library (and there could be quite a few :-) or your program. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL

Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-20 Thread Thomas Koenig
John Goerzen wrote: Why are we using dotfile locking only? There are much better mechanisms (flock, etc.) that should be used instead. I can see no place where dotfile locking would work and flock-style locking would fail... We don't have a lock daemon for NFS. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL

Re: Policy wrt mail lockfile (section 4.3)

1997-06-23 Thread Thomas Koenig
the current Linux nfsd does indeed follow that strategy). This will also not survive a server crash, and there is no way to enquire wether the server does support xid caching. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic

Moving away from MD5

1997-06-23 Thread Thomas Koenig
design parameters are secret. Source code for RIPEMD-160 is avialiable, and the algorithm is in the public domain. For more information, you can check out http://www.esat.kuleuven.ac.be/~bosselae/ripemd160.html -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find

Re: Moving away from MD5

1997-06-24 Thread Thomas Koenig
uses a so-called birthday attack, so the 128 bit of md5 only provide 64 bits of real security. A 160 bit hash does sound much better (although I'd still sleep more soundly with 256 bit, but there's no good 256 bit hash available at the moment). -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Copyright question

1997-06-24 Thread Thomas Koenig
and target language as any of the EU languages, get definitions of terms, and chose the subject areas you're interested in. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING

Re: Moving away from MD5

1997-06-24 Thread Thomas Koenig
, and that SHA-1 came out before that method of attack became public knowledge. -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL

Re: problems with SHA-1

1997-06-25 Thread Thomas Koenig
1995. SHA-1 seems to have been introduced because of an attack on SHA. What attack this was has been kept secret :-( -- Thomas Koenig, [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] The joy of engineering is to find a straight line on a double logarithmic diagram. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING