On Tue, Sep 05, 2000 at 08:46:35PM -0500, Joseph Carter wrote:
Anyone checked the temperature in Hell lately?
Do you intend to go there?
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Just found iptables for 2.4.X kernels (for packet filtering, NAT etc) and
packaged it up. Its in incoming.
Sorry for the missing ITP. Will remove it if someone has somethin better.
Title: Linux Developer
Job Description:
Develop and maintain Debian packages related to our
solution within the standard Debian distribution as well as on our
opensource site (http://opensource.captech.com) as well as on our private
archives. Deploy and configure Debian/Linux systems. Setup and
stuff will be on the next CD series and
on the ftp sites.
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Christoph Lameter, MSCS, M.Div.
Available for a job or consulting (see http://lameter.com/consulting.html)
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, outdated,
probably insecure, and boa is just as small, fast, and has
a very similar configuration style.
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Available for a job or consulting (see http
No. Someone else will probably do so. I am not using pascal at all right
now.
On Mon, 5 Jan 1998, Paolo M. Pumilia wrote:
Hi Christoph Lameter,
I am switching my linux system to hamm.
Since gcc upgraded to 2.7.2.3, it seems i cannot use
my old gpc compiler any more. Do you plan to package
On 29 Jun 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
Christoph == Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Christoph This wont work as we already have said again and
Christoph again. You are modifying the HTTP protocol with this
Christoph and creating a new .html.gz extension in essence
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Bruce Perens wrote:
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:
This is a non-standard extension of the http protocol!
This is a pretty silly argument. The web server has complete control over
how a compressed document is presented. It can send the document as
Content
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Christian Schwarz wrote:
But most of the web browser can easily be fixed. Since boa is really
very small and already supports on-the-fly decompression, we can include
it even in the base system so everyone out there his it installed. It can
be started on another port than 80,
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
So here's my stand:
- let's munch up the links to point to .html.gz files. Ugly, I know,
and a bit of work, but then we don't need to force people to install a
web server. I think it's pretty important that we don't force people
to run stuff they
On 29 Jun 1997, Marco Budde wrote:
CL Why would you change the links? I dont understand. If you are fixing the
CL web-browsers then do it in such a way that you do not need to change any
CL links.
You can't fix the browsers, because we don't have the source for important
browsers like
On Sun, 29 Jun 1997, Jim Pick wrote:
We shouldn't be changing the way browsers work.
That is what I have been saying all the way...
Most browsers follow the HTTP/1.0 or 1.1 standard - including Netscape -
and I don't think it's smart to develop a debian-specific HTTP
protocol extension --
This was discussed half a year ago and the webservers were fitted
with on the fly decompression for .gz files. What dwww does is already
not necessary. Changing the content of .html files might lead to problems
with web browsers. Not all platforms have a gzip by default available.
Please do not
On Sat, 28 Jun 1997, Lars Wirzenius wrote:
Christoph Lameter:
This was discussed half a year ago and the webservers were fitted
with on the fly decompression for .gz files.
For the umpteenth time, that DOES NOT HELP WHEN THE USER IS READING
THE FILES DIRECTLY, NOT VIA A WEB SERVER.
Web
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: Christoph You want me to run around Campus installing gzip on 300 machines
: Christoph because those users are not able to?
: Don't worry: gzip is part of the base system. g
Your word needs to be in Microsoft's and Apple's ear.
: Why don't we test
On Tue, 24 Jun 1997, Michael Meskes wrote:
But that means we have to add all permission since all are configurable.
Isn't it a better idea to save the standard setting only for those
programs that are setuid by default?
I am not sure that I understand this.
/etc/suid.conf contains permission
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: Could anyone please tell me the advantages of suidmanager as it is right
: now? I can see the usefullness of a tool like that, but I wonder if there
: should be a daily test run to make sure no other file are suid. Or is this
: dones elsewhere?
Not all
Does not need any work. Please take the package, put your name in as a
maintainer and upload it. I wont consider this a done deal until the
package has your name in it.
On Sat, 21 Jun 1997, David Welton wrote:
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:
| I am listed as the maintainer
2.0.31-2 does redirect traffic but does not change the port number. I am really
getting sick of the way the 2.0.X series is handled. There are buggy releases
but no
fixed releases coming. I am considering moving to 2.1.X but then 2.1.X does not
have all
the features 2.0.X has. What a crazy
Also check with Philip Hazel [EMAIL PROTECTED] who has done a significant
amount of research on that issue for exim.
The locking code in exim is probably the newest, most up to date code I know.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: After all the talk about NFS lockfiles etc, and checking out
Lilo 2.0 has the ability to display a file before the prompt and also the
ability to boot something with a single keystroke. If someone could update
the lilo package and provide a decent configuration then lilo could also
offer a nice menu on boot up so that newbies are no longer irritated.
Maybe
: Mailboxes are locked using the username.lock lockfile convention, rather
: than fcntl, flock or lockf.
: This is buggy since it's not working over NFS. (I'm running into problems
: every few days since I use sendmail/procmail/pine over a NFS mounted
: /var/spool/mail !)
I am using
Ok. You got woffle. Boa is maintained by [EMAIL PROTECTED] but he
might want some help.
On Thu, 19 Jun 1997, Federico Di Gregorio wrote:
Some time ago this message showed up on my mailbox... If nobody
has yes taken it, I will be glad to take over wwwoffle and boa
as my first debian packages...
I dont know if I already said this but exim does not support bangpaths but
domainized uucp is no problem.
On 14 Jun 1997, John Goerzen wrote:
Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It might be good if we would replace smail in hamm with exim. Exim should
be the standard mailer
Exim can provide UUCP capabilities. It cannot do bang path routing. I doubt
that anyone is using that though.
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To: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED];
debian-devel@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Hamm: Exim + Chos standard?
Date: Saturday, June 14
mgetty-voice was removed from the distribution because of the explicit
demand of the author. Please ask him before putting mgetty-voice back into
the distribution.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: Greetings! I've been reading here recently about the mgetty package
: looking for a new
Sourcecode is available for chos and it has been GPLed by the author after
several people talked with him (among them me on behalf of Debian).
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, SirDibos wrote:
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, SirDibos wrote:
Also we might think about replacing lilo with chos as the standard boot
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, SirDibos wrote:
speaking of which. if I packaged up fetchpop, could it get included in
debian? I much prefer it to fetchmail. if only fetchmail had a -o or a
localfolder option! Also, fetchpop guides you thru creation of the
appropriate config file the first time you run
It might be good if we would replace smail in hamm with exim. Exim should
be the standard mailer for hamm:
- Exim is based on the same concepts as smail.
- It is developed with newer concepts in mind
- Exim is scalable from running from inetd to delivering hundredths of
thousands of messages a
On Thu, 12 Jun 1997, joost witteveen wrote:
Sorry but this is stable bug. And its significant for people running Bo as
a webserver etc which usually does not have a display or even a video
board. I have a series of those machine that I maintain.
You mean, they have gs installed, but no video
: Anyway I thought that Chrisoph Lameter is the maintainer of mgetty
: as the most recent uploads come from him.
Is there an imposter around? My last upload must have been half a year ago or
so.
Maybe someone just forgot to change the maintainer name again.
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: Thomas Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
: How do we encourage users to submit more bug reports when something
: goes wrong?
: Perhaps the `bug' package should be priority standard? It does make
: bug reporting much easier.
Some reference in prominent
On Thu, 5 Jun 1997, Colin R. Telmer wrote:
Questions:
1) What is /var/lib/netplan used for? It seems to me that the only
directory that is needed for netplan is /usr/lib/plan/netplan.dir.
I cannot remember why this was needed. There are multiple binaries running
though. One for the client and
: And you have, I believe, stated that you are unwilling to see ncurses
: released with a license that guarantees redistribution or modified
: versions at this time.
: How do we resolve this issue?
A. Find an curses library that works. Ncurses not only has a licence problem
but as far as I can
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote:
: What we want is:
: * `--' always deletes the character to the left of the cursor.
: * `Delete' always deletes to the right.
: * `Control'+`H' produces help in Emacs, as before.
Emacs is one application. We want to use an existing STANDARD not screw up
AFAIK
Herbert has fixed bugs in the past in 2.0.30 and the current debian version
is already heavily patched. Its not the question of asking him. He already
did it. The question is if all (dont take all to extremes...) bugs known
have found some consideration by Herbert.
I have not had any
I can put that into the chris-cust package ...
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Tom Lees wrote:
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Christoph Lameter wrote:
Anybody should know that before typing rm -rf * or an equivolent,
you THINK FIRST, every time.
The problem does not arise when you type rm the first time
I dont care how the prompt looks. Just pick one and dont leave it the way
it is. Who is the maintainer of the package in question? Let him decide.
On Wed, 21 May 1997, Chris Fearnley wrote:
'=?iso-8859-1?Q?Nicol=E1s_Lichtmaier?= wrote:'
So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D
No, PS1='[EMAIL
Anybody should know that before typing rm -rf * or an equivolent,
you THINK FIRST, every time.
The problem does not arise when you type rm the first time but after you
have some confidence and you think you know what you are doing.
Everybody knows what you should think first. But who does after
Have a look at the bug report. I dont know why no one has marked it as
done yet. There is a file lists in the but report ending in .dpkg-tmp
evidently from a crash. Dont be buerocratic about releasing 1.3.
On Tue, 20 May 1997, Brian White wrote:
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So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D
Too long. But better than nothing.
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Too long when displayed. Not too long when specified.
Wit the hostname and the current directory I already run into more than 80
characters at times.
On Mon, 19 May 1997, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
On May 19, Christoph Lameter wrote
So I say: PS1=[\\u] \\h:\\w\\$ =D
Too long
Could you please give me a simple script that produces the error that you
have been talking about so long? I have not been able to produce a single
instance of the problem you are mentioning. Get emacs and all other
complicating circumstances out of it.
Just tell me how to produce the problem and
I have tested your scripts and everything works just as it should.
Check your system for anything special you might have done.
work:~$ ./script1
This is ./script1
The value of $- is 'hB'
This is ./script2
The value of $- is 'hB'
If the grep fails, this will never echo.
work:~$ cat script1
I only run bash 2.0 on my systems at home.
On Sat, 17 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
Christoph == Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Christoph I have tested your scripts and everything works just as
Christoph it should. Check your system for anything special you
To my knowledge
set -e
is only valid for the currently executing scripts and not a subshell.
On Thu, 15 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
Christoph == Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
[... in a release announcement ...]
Christoph May fix situations leading
I have tried it and set -e is not propagated into a subprocess.
This is the script I ran successfully:
#/!bin/sh
set -e
suidregister /etc/exports clameter clameter 4755
Please investigate what is wrong with your system.
On Fri, 16 May 1997, Karl M. Hegbloom wrote:
Christoph == Christoph
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
maorOn Sun, 15 Sep 1996, Christoph Lameter wrote:
maor
maor util-linux does not install the whereis command from the utils. The
maor whereis command is used to find the location of a Unix command and is
very
maor important.
maor
maorActually the whereis
package: mbr
version: 1.0.0-2
I looked through the package and could not find anything on how to use it or
install
it. There is a mention of make install but since the sources are not included
in the binary no installation is possible.
Please include documentation on how to use it.
I noticed that we do not use the kernel packages of the debian project in
our school. Every machine still compiles ones own kernel.
I thought about the reasons for it. Having the packages would be much
easier to handle I guess:
1. Kernel packages are not up to date and kept bug free. There is a
You are right. Forgot to put the conffiles into the binary.
0.5.13-2 fixes this.
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Mark Purcell wrote:
mspPackage: dhcpd
mspVersion: 0.5.13-1
msp
mspDhcpd overwrites an existing /etc/dhcpd.conf file without warning.
msp
mspI suppose I have no one else but myself to blame for
On Fri, 27 Sep 1996, Guy Maor wrote:
maor But I noticed that a lot of the tools are NOT in other debian packages.
maor
maorWhich ones, specifically?
Sorry I have to pass on that one right now. Leaving for a weekend retreat.
Next week if I have time I will hopefully be able to make a list.
On Wed, 25 Sep 1996, Bruce Perens wrote:
From: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- The group.byname database was completely read by other machines
continuously.
- The ypserv process was running most of the time and was not
able to satisfy all those requests.
[...]
How can we solve
I think the NIS problems with /etc/group could be solved in the following
way:
1. Implement a cache for the initgroups library call that is so frequently
used to find all groups a user belongs to. This will also improve
general performance without NIS since the search of the complete
/etc/groups
package: libc5
version: 5.2.18-11
I cannot build libc5:
[miriam]/usr/src/libc5-5.2.18:./debian.rules build
make
make[1]: Entering directory `/usr/src/libc5-5.2.18'
set -e; for i in assert bsd cvt ctype des dirent grp inet io libbsd libio
locale login math misc mntent netgroup posix pwd regex
Here is a patch to the libc 5.2.18 to hopefully fix the NIS storms. I
could not test it since the debian source package for the libc does not
build its targets. Anyone know how to get the debian source package to
build? debian.rules binary or debian.rules both fail without ever
reaching the
.
+
+ Christoph Lameter, September 26, 1996
+*/
+ if ('+' == g-gr_name[0] '\0' != g-gr_name[1] ':' !=
g-gr_name[1])
{
g = __nis_getgrnam(g-gr_name + 1, g-gr_mem, info);
if (NULL == g)
continue;
}
- else if (0 == strcmp(g-gr_name
On Thu, 26 Sep 1996, Emilio Lopes wrote:
Hi!
Can I make some suggestions for adduser? Here they go...
1- Is it possible to make adduser NIS aware? If the the machine is a
NIS client it could warn about adding users to that machine only. If
the machine is a NIS server, it could run make
This is a game after all. I dont think we should worry about someone
editing the scores file.
I cannot see any other games that I have installed from the Debian
distribution to be using setgid. What is the custom of doing things under
debian?
On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, D. Charalambous wrote:
Package: at
Version: 2.9b-1
The at command seems to reread /etc/group each minute or so. If run with
ypbind this will cause an extraordinary load on the network and nis
servers.
I had to switch of the at runs on all my machines that run NIS since we
have a group for each of our 600 or so users
We had severe problems with our Campus Network which is fully based on
Debian. We are using the one group a user approach that is Debian
standard. We are running two NIS Servers one master one slave and a couple
of Server that utilize these two main NIS Servers.
I finally ran one of those in
Package: babel
Version: 3.6-4
Installation result of babel:
waterf:/home/clameter# dpkg --configure --pending
Setting up babel (3.6-4) ...
Building new format(s) with babel support using install-fmt-base(8)
Rebuilding `latex' format ... done
Rebuilding `tex' format ... kpathsea: Running
The N option is used to statically link a program. What manpage were you
looking at?
On Sun, 22 Sep 1996, Dale Scheetz wrote:
dwarfOn Sat, 21 Sep 1996, llucius wrote:
dwarf
dwarf I'm sorry it was the -N link option that causes ae to be linked
dwarf statically. Is it really necessary to use the
It seems that we have a problem with the reliability of the Debian Server.
Could we switch to a network of machines that mirror each other nightly
and enables upload at arbitrary sites? We already have chiark doing
something like that.
Similar things should probably be done to the mailing list.
I am using scp to transfer files to master.
Just generate an .shosts file and put your host in it.
Change permissions to 700 and then make one initial connection
FROM master.debian.org to the system you will be doing the scp from.
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Chris Fearnley wrote:
I was wondering if
There is no newline at the end of my debian/control for eject ...
New version should be on master.debian.org as you read this.
On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, llucius wrote:
When attempting to extract the source for eject_1.4-1, I received the
following message:
dpkg-source: error: diff contains
I have the following strange occurrence when building eject. Package seems
to build despite these messages though.
[miriam]~/debian/eject/eject-1.4:su -m dpkg-buildpackage
Password:
dpkg-buildpackage: source package is eject
dpkg-buildpackage: source version is 1.4-2
dpkg-buildpackage: build
On 18 Sep 1996, Kai Henningsen wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Christoph Lameter) wrote on 17.09.96 in [EMAIL
PROTECTED]:
I thought the Replaces: implied the removal of the package before
installation?
No, that's Conflicts:. Replaces: says that the package will replace some
files
That would be great!
On Wed, 18 Sep 1996, Scott Barker wrote:
How hard would it be to move the remaining config scripts (the ones that
configure network parameters, lilo, etc) off of the root disk and into a
debian package?
Seems that there is something wrong with dpkg-source. Why would it require
a - instead of a _ for the orig.tar.gz when all the other files for the
package have a _.
On Thu, 19 Sep 1996, llucius wrote:
lluciusPackage: dhcpd
lluciusVersion: 0.5.13-1
llucius
lluciusThe following message was
I have a package called bridge-0.2 that has additional protocol filtering
bridging features that I expect to be included in the 2.1.X kernels and
some tool enhancements. This package requires patching the kernel right
now.
I would like the bridge-0.1 version to be kept in stable debian for the
Package: util-linux
Version: 2.5-6
util-linux does not install the whereis command from the utils. The
whereis command is used to find the location of a Unix command and is very
important.
Reviewing the source package I noted that a large number of other tools
are also not installed. What are
Ok. The next release will have that fixed.
On Fri, 13 Sep 1996, Martin Schulze wrote:
joeyThe same happens to messages sent by faxq:
joey
joeyTranscript:
joey---
joeySubject: your fax to 9808557
joeyFrom: root (Fax Subsystem),\n
joey
joeyYour fax has been sent successfully at: \c
joeyFri Sep 13
Package: pine
Version: 3.94-3
When trying to do a (S)etup (N)ewpassword from the main menu of pine I get a
message that
/bin/passwd cannot be found. Debians passwd is in /usr/bin and not in /bin.
package: dpkg
version: 1.3.14
I have a netdiag package from which I removed the postrm script. Here is a
result of trying to install the package after that change:
# dpkg -i netdiag*5_i386.deb
(Reading database ... 20335 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace netdiag
Alright I tried all the ideas I had. What shall I do to get consistency
with network diagnostic tools that should be be in the hads of
troublemakers?
I know the adm group is not the right one. Shall I try to set up a new
group of users being able to use network diagnostics?
tcpdump and
There ios a new release on debian.org of xfishtank that hopefully
addressed the problem.
On Fri, 6 Sep 1996, Emilio Lopes wrote:
ecl HX == Herbert Xu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
ecl
eclHX Package: xfishtank
eclHX Version: 2.2-1
ecl
eclHX As the subject says, xfishtank dumps core at 16 bpp. It
Ok. I will try to get it to run with 16bpp. Everybody seemed just to run
8bpp. Perhaps I am not current.
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, James A. Robinson wrote:
jimr
jimr Its not compiled for 16bpp.
jimr
jimrCould such programs then have a note telling us about that in the
jimrdescription? It looks bad
Its not compiled for 16bpp.
On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Herbert Xu wrote:
herbertPackage: xfishtank
herbertVersion: 2.2-1
herbert
herbertAs the subject says, xfishtank dumps core at 16 bpp. It
herbertworks fine at 8 bpp, at least on my machine.
herbert
herbert--
herbertDebian GNU/Linux 1.1 is out! {
On Sat, 31 Aug 1996, James A. Robinson wrote:
jimrMy first thought was that the postinst should probably ask whether or
jimrnot it should set up an announce mailing list -- we might already have
jimrsuch an aliases, or be using majordomo, or just want to check
jimrsmartlist out without creating a
Dont know what kind of hostname tool you got installed on your machine.
It works on my Debian 1.1 system.
On Fri, 30 Aug 1996, Douglas Bates wrote:
batesPackage: smartlist
batesStatus: install ok half-configured
batesPriority: optional
batesSection: mail
batesMaintainer: Christoph Lameter [EMAIL
On Tue, 27 Aug 1996 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dirk.Eddelbuettel
Dirk.EddelbuettelPACKAGE: xfishtank
Dirk.EddelbuettelVERSION: 2.2-1
Dirk.Eddelbuettel
Dirk.Eddelbuettel1. The package contains nothing but the binary. It *must*
contain at least the
Dirk.Eddelbuettel copyright file. Docs would be
Package: tin
Version: 1.3beta.950824-12
The default value of TIN_NOVROOTDIR is /var/lib/news. The Debian INN uses
/var/lib/news/over.view to store the overview database.
The result of this problem is two overview databases one in /var/lib/news and
one in
/var/lib/news/over.view. Plus there is
Package: manpages-de
Version: 0.1-1
I installed the German manpages. But what do I do to use them?
I tried export LANG=de but that did not change anything.
Please provide documentation somewhere about how to use the manpages.
Also on the mentioned website there is also NO INFORMATION about how
Package: netstd
version: 2.05-1
RSH does not work with baud rates above 115200.
[miriam]~:stty
speed 115200 baud; line = 0;
eol2 = M-^?; susp = undef; rprnt = undef; werase = undef;
lnext = undef; flush = undef;
-imaxbel
tab3
-iexten -echoctl -echoke
[miriam]~:rsh aaron
Segmentation fault
Works
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