Re: What happens when a bad package is in Debian stable?

2015-01-04 Thread Peter Michaux
On Sat, Jan 3, 2015 at 10:58 PM, Bob Proulx b...@proulx.com wrote: Peter Michaux wrote: Suppose there a nice package has been in Debian stable for years. If a new version is added to Debian stable and problems are discovered after it is added, what happens to fix the problem? If problems

What happens when a bad package is in Debian stable?

2015-01-03 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi, Suppose there a nice package has been in Debian stable for years. If a new version is added to Debian stable and problems are discovered after it is added, what happens to fix the problem? If the new version can be fixed? Is a fixed version added with a higher number? What if the new

Re: pool to dists assocation?

2014-04-06 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi Slavko, On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 12:49 AM, Slavko li...@slavino.sk wrote: Hi, Dňa Sat, 5 Apr 2014 21:46:56 -0700 Peter Michaux petermich...@gmail.com napísal: Thank you, Don. I don't think I want to manage my small repository with dak. That seems like it would be overkill. I use

pool to dists assocation?

2014-04-05 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi, When I look at http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/a/apache2/ , I see the versions of apache2 for wheezy and jessie together in the same directory. When the repository Packages index files are created, how does apt-ftparchive know to put apache2.2-bin_2.2.22-13+deb7u1_amd64.deb into

Re: pool to dists assocation?

2014-04-05 Thread Peter Michaux
the Packages and Release files for the distributions. Hopefully it works out to be as easy as it currently seems it will be. Peter On Sat, Apr 5, 2014 at 7:15 PM, Don Armstrong d...@debian.org wrote: On Sat, 05 Apr 2014, Peter Michaux wrote: Using dpkg --info for these two packages, I don't see what

Re: dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-29 Thread Peter Michaux
On Fri, Mar 28, 2014 at 5:02 PM, Mark Neyhart mark.neyh...@akleg.gov wrote: On 03/28/2014 03:22 PM, Peter Michaux wrote: Is Dirvish still a good choice in 2014? Dirvish just works. I've been using it for years. Where is your bank directory? The example configuration file has /backups

dirvish still a good choice?

2014-03-28 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi, I see in The Debian Administrator's Handbook [1] that Dirvish is recommended for backups. Looking at the Dirvish website [2] it seems that the project has been inactive since 2008. Perhaps Dirvish is such a simple layer over top of rsync that its been stable and hasn't needed attention in

initialization package for a new server?

2014-03-23 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi, I would like to automate the creation of a new web server as much as possible. It would seem ideal if I do not have to edit any files at all but rather only install packages. I have my own simple APT repository accessible via SSH but the new server must first be configured to know about that

Apache default directories

2014-03-14 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi, The default virtual host when Apache is installed on Debian has document root /var/www and a cgi-bin directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin. These directories do not make intuitive sense to me. If I have static HTML pages and some Perl CGI scripts, I would expect they go somewhere under /usr/share/. What

Re: Apache default directories

2014-03-14 Thread Peter Michaux
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 3/14/2014 9:20 PM, Peter Michaux wrote: Hi, The default virtual host when Apache is installed on Debian has document root /var/www and a cgi-bin directory /usr/lib/cgi-bin. These directories do not make

Re: Apache default directories

2014-03-14 Thread Peter Michaux
On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:44 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 3/14/2014 10:20 PM, Peter Michaux wrote: On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 7:01 PM, Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net wrote: On 3/14/2014 9:20 PM, Peter Michaux wrote: Hi, The default virtual host when Apache

running a website the Debian way

2014-03-13 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi, I've had some small hobby-type websites running on a Debian VPS for a several years. My sysadmin approach has been very amateur and ad hoc. It has worked fine because I have not depended on these sites for anything. I'd like to learn how to install and maintain a website in a more

Re: apt-file update doesn't get Contents-i386.gz from my own apt repository

2009-12-12 Thread Peter Michaux
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:49:13PM -0800, Peter Michaux wrote: I have created my own apt simple repository Which documentation recommended you to create a so called simple repository? It should be avoided these days. (See

Re: apt-file update doesn't get Contents-i386.gz from my own apt repository

2009-12-12 Thread Peter Michaux
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 3:47 AM, Osamu Aoki os...@debian.org wrote: On Fri, Dec 11, 2009 at 01:49:13PM -0800, Peter Michaux wrote: I have created my own apt simple repository Which documentation recommended you to create a so called simple repository?  It should be avoided these days

apt-file update doesn't get Contents-i386.gz from my own apt repository

2009-12-11 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi, I have created my own apt simple repository # ls -1 /home/code/apt Contents Contents-i386.gz Packages Packages.gz db libconfig-properties-perl_1.70-1_all.deb I can install the package from that apt repository # cat EOF /etc/apt/sources.list deb file:///home/code/apt ./

apt-file update error because missing Contents-i386.gz file

2009-12-10 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi, I have a new Debian Lenny system. The /etc/apt/sources.list file contains deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib deb http://security.debian.org/ lenny/updates main deb-src http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian lenny main contrib When I do apt-file update I see the following

Re: applications, users, groups, permissions

2007-01-21 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi Andy, Thank you for the response. It's a little clearer but I can't verify some of your suggestions. On 1/21/07, Andy Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:15:38PM -0800, Peter Michaux wrote: In my apache2.conf file I have the user and group directives which are fairly

applications, users, groups, permissions

2007-01-20 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi, I have been playing with apache on my debian server and have a few questions about how applications (apache in this case) have access permission to files. I am assured by the people on #apache that this is a vanilla *nix question and not an apache question. I hope this is a good place to ask

Sarge or Etch for Apache 2.2?

2007-01-01 Thread Peter Michaux
Hi, My new hosting company has standard choices of Fedora Core 5 or 6 or Debian Sarge. They suggest Fedora Core because it comes with Apache 2.2 which I want. They say that they could install Debian Etch for me because that has Apache 2.2 but Etch hasn't been officially released yet so this may