Re: Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-20 Thread Norbert Veber
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 03:16:13PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:01:24AM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: > > packages such as diskless-image-secure, diskless-image-simple, xfsprogs-bf, > > e2fsprogs-bf should automatically qualify for grave or even critic

Re: New update_excuses output

2001-09-19 Thread Norbert Veber
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 02:31:44PM +1000, Anthony Towns wrote: > > Would it be possible to also offer a compressed version of these files > > (update_excuses.html, update_output.txt, etc)? > > Should be there as of now, without the etc. Also without the .txt :) Not Found The requested URL /test

Re: rdate can't connect socket

2001-09-19 Thread Norbert Veber
On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 11:36:45AM -0400, Bob Hilliard wrote: > I posted the following to -user three days ago with no response. > Can someone here help? > > I have the following command in a cron.daily script: > rdate time.mist.god > > This has worked consistently for a

Re: /bin/ls is impure!

2001-09-19 Thread Norbert Veber
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 07:32:34PM +0300, Pekka Lampila wrote: > On 19.09.2001, Norbert Veber wrote: > > The environment is unchanged, the aliases are unchanged, > > Actually it's not. > > ~/dbg$ diff env.before env.after > 17c17 > < LINES=27 > --- &

Re: /bin/ls is impure!

2001-09-19 Thread Norbert Veber
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 09:08:01AM -0700, Philippe Troin wrote: [...] > It works... Something's wrong with your system. > Try strace'ing ls. What terminal are you doing this in? Ie. console/xterm/gnome-terminal/etc.. Thanks, Norbert pgpBs3QIdao5m.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: /bin/ls is impure!

2001-09-19 Thread Norbert Veber
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 11:53:10AM -0400, Chris Danis wrote: > Did you check the COLUMNS environment variable? Ahh, I missed that because its not displayed by /usr/bin/env. > brooks% echo $COLUMNS > 49151 Yep, I get the same value. Whats interesting is that this environment variable is (somehow

Re: /bin/ls is impure!

2001-09-19 Thread Norbert Veber
On Wed, Sep 19, 2001 at 05:51:58PM +0200, Wichert Akkerman wrote: > > Try this: > > apt-get install purity purity-off # Not sure if the -off package is > > # actually necessary > > What does that do? The description for the purity package is > quite useless. Its a pr

Re: [Testing] Install problems

2001-09-19 Thread Norbert Veber
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 03:36:24PM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote: > Maybe the first problem is due to the chroot environment. > Anyone can confirm/infirm it under a plain install ? I noticed this a couble of times in unstable as well. Its a problem with dselect, not the locales pacakge. It happens

Purposely broken/uninstallable packages in archive

2001-09-19 Thread Norbert Veber
Hi, It looks like more and more of these are popping up. It seems to me that packages such as diskless-image-secure, diskless-image-simple, xfsprogs-bf, e2fsprogs-bf should automatically qualify for grave or even critical bugs for breaking your system if installed. From the description of diskle

/bin/ls is impure!

2001-09-19 Thread Norbert Veber
Hi, This is probably the weirdest thing I've seen in debian so far. I was able to re-produce it on my home and work machines, and a person on irc also go the same results. Try this: apt-get install purity purity-off # Not sure if the -off package is # actually n

Re: funny idle time from time

2001-09-05 Thread Norbert Veber
On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 12:12:46PM +1000, Craig Sanders wrote: > On Sat, Sep 01, 2001 at 11:35:05AM +1000, Brian May wrote: > > Also, if a computer is running slowly, but top says the CPU has plenty > > of idle time and free RAM, is there anyway I can find out what is > > wrong? > > most likely sl

Re: PAM and slink (was Re: packaging PAM modules? anyone?)

1998-06-22 Thread Norbert Veber
Ugh, this doesnt make sense the way it is.. :) > What sorts of things can pam do? I only know that for example a long ^login > program that uses PAM works regardless of weather the password file is > shadowed or not, but can it do

Re: PAM and slink (was Re: packaging PAM modules? anyone?)

1998-06-22 Thread Norbert Veber
On Sun, Jun 21, 1998 at 07:09:30PM -0400, Adam P. Harris wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gregory S. Stark) writes: > > > I asked once earlier, but no one responded: > > Does anyone know how PAM modules should be packaged? > > Gregory, I'm sorry I cannot provide good technical information. I do > kn

Re: INTENT: to pkg netscape 4.5 full debs(not 4.05)

1998-06-18 Thread Norbert Veber
On Wed, Jun 17, 1998 at 10:51:55PM -0400, Gregory S. Stark wrote: > > Adam Heath <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > As some of you might know, I have been working on full debs of netscape > > 4.05. I have everything almost perfect, except for the reporting clause. > > Is there any possibility we

Re: Bug#23404 and #23433: mysql-server: seg faults

1998-06-15 Thread Norbert Veber
On Mon, Jun 15, 1998 at 07:20:09PM +0200, Scott Hanson wrote: > I have two bug reports of the mysql daemon seg faulting on startup on > hamm (or mostly hamm) systems, one for the hamm package > (3.21.25gamma-4) and the other for the more current slink package > (3.21.30-2). I can neither reproduce

Help Wanted: xinetd

1998-06-11 Thread Norbert Veber
Hi.. I am the new xinetd maintainer, and I am looking for someone that is somewhat experienced in writing perl scripts. What I need is for someone to write (or help me write) a new xinetd specific version of /usr/sbin/update-inetd. This is not a HUGE job, since one only needs to adopt the existi

Re: xinetd and nmbd

1998-06-11 Thread Norbert Veber
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 07:11:38PM -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Hi again Norbert, > > just one question: do you know if xinetd will continue to listen at > traffic in a service's port after it has already forked the server for > that service and wait=no? Hm it will not answer the request

Re: xinetd and portmap

1998-06-10 Thread Norbert Veber
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 10:59:10AM -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Hi Norbert, > > > It used to be there, but then it was rejected :) I am fixing it now as we > > speak (along with some other fixes). It should be uploaded again by > > tomorrow at the latest (tonight is more likely). > > Great, I

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-10 Thread Norbert Veber
On Wed, Jun 10, 1998 at 12:49:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There's a typo in README.samba, though: it says > "flag=RESUSE" when it should say "flags=REUSE". I'll test this further > just to be sure. flags is the correct keyword according to the xinet.conf man page, this will be fixed in

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-10 Thread Norbert Veber
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 10:16:25PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Norbert Veber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The bug report pretty much says: > > xinetd: samba 1.9.18p3-1 don't work from xinetd (from inetd is ok) > > > > What I need is to

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-09 Thread Norbert Veber
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 12:30:50PM -0400, Eloy A. Paris wrote: > Hi, > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > > > The bug report pretty much says: > > xinetd: samba 1.9.18p3-1 don't work from xinetd (from inetd is ok) > > > > What I need is to know if this is a real bug or just a user con

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-09 Thread Norbert Veber
On Tue, Jun 09, 1998 at 03:55:58PM +0200, Mirek Kwasniak wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 02:56:44PM -0400, Norbert Veber wrote: > > The bug report pretty much says: > > xinetd: samba 1.9.18p3-1 don't work from xinetd (from inetd is ok) > > > > What I need is to kn

Re: Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-08 Thread Norbert Veber
> I can send you all e-mail messages I have sent and received about this > bug, if you wish. Right now I don't have much time to re-investigate the > bug. Sure, that would be usefull, thanks. pgpsFjS2YWP1P.pgp Description: PGP signature

Xinetd bug #20705

1998-06-08 Thread Norbert Veber
The bug report pretty much says: xinetd: samba 1.9.18p3-1 don't work from xinetd (from inetd is ok) What I need is to know if this is a real bug or just a user configuration problem. I personally do not have/use samba, but I know of at least 2 people that use it successfully with xinetd. If some