Re: [Leaf-devel] How do I request help FAQ

2002-03-12 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, David Douthitt wrote: > On 3/12/02 at 6:56 AM, Jeff Newmiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, David Douthitt wrote: > > > > Not really May I recommend: > > > > If you _are_ going to make a script, all sorts of options > > are available. As I sa

Re: [Leaf-devel] How do I request help FAQ

2002-03-12 Thread David Douthitt
On 3/12/02 at 9:15 AM, Charles Steinkuehler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > And a big disadvantage...it's a lot for someone to type > in, creating even more questions along the lines of "did > they type in the script correctly?". I was speaking from the standpoint of finally getting a script writte

Re: [Leaf-devel] How do I request help FAQ

2002-03-12 Thread David Douthitt
On 3/12/02 at 6:56 AM, Jeff Newmiller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, David Douthitt wrote: > > Not really May I recommend: > > If you _are_ going to make a script, all sorts of options > are available. As I said before, the problem is that it > will have to be made easy

Re: [Leaf-devel] How do I request help FAQ

2002-03-12 Thread David Douthitt
On 3/12/02 at 7:31 AM, Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. Is incorporating a "diagnostics" script in into each > LEAF distribution a good idea? I think so. > But ... the FAQ mentions optional information, to be > supplied if circumstances warrant; how does one sensibly > incorporate

[Leaf-devel] New to devel group. Here are my contributions

2002-03-12 Thread Pete Dubler
In appreciation of all of your outstanding work, I am contributing a minor, but hopefully helpful addition to the LEAF collections. These are conglomerations of your good lrp's along with some documentation to tie it all together for two things: 1- Wireless Leaf Cookbook, based on Dachstein and

Re: [Leaf-devel] How do I request help FAQ

2002-03-12 Thread George Metz
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > 1. Is incorporating a "diagnostics" script in into each LEAF distribution a > good idea? Probably (as long as it doesn't get so big as to cause problems > with fitting on a floppy). If we were going with a method that provides a separate disk image for

[Leaf-devel] [ leaf-Support Requests-529085 ] Editing Modules Correctly

2002-03-12 Thread noreply
Support Requests item #529085, was opened at 2002-03-12 11:46 You can respond by visiting: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?func=detail&atid=213751&aid=529085&group_id=13751 Category: Release/Branch: Dachstein Group: None Status: Open Resolution: None Priority: 5 Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (n

Re: [Leaf-devel] libz security

2002-03-12 Thread KP Kirchdörfer
Am Dienstag, 12. März 2002 18:26 schrieb Mike Noyes: > At 2002-03-12 17:51 +0100, KP Kirchdörfer wrote: > >packages - for packages usable with glibc 2.0.x and glibc 2.1.3 > >packages-glibc 2.1.3 for packages compiled with glibc 2.1.3 (due > > to various reasons). > > KP, > Creation of a packages t

Re: [Leaf-devel] libz security

2002-03-12 Thread Mike Noyes
At 2002-03-12 09:48 -0800, Jeff Newmiller wrote: >On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Mike Noyes wrote: >[...] > > Questions: > > How can I determine the lib used in package creation? Do we need > > separate trees for lib versions? > >untested ... but something like > > md ${package} > cd ${package} > gunz

Re: [Leaf-devel] libz security

2002-03-12 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Mike Noyes wrote: [...] > Questions: > How can I determine the lib used in package creation? Do we need separate > trees for lib versions? untested ... but something like md ${package} cd ${package} gunzip ${packagelrppath} ldd `ls bin/* sbin/* usr/bin usr/sbin us

Re: [Leaf-devel] libz security

2002-03-12 Thread Mike Noyes
At 2002-03-12 17:51 +0100, KP Kirchdörfer wrote: >packages - for packages usable with glibc 2.0.x and glibc 2.1.3 >packages-glibc 2.1.3 for packages compiled with glibc 2.1.3 (due to >various reasons). KP, Creation of a packages tree in bin is on my to-do list. I already have a list of packages

Re: [Leaf-devel] How do I request help FAQ

2002-03-12 Thread Scott C. Best
A quick comment: > 1. Is incorporating a "diagnostics" script in into each LEAF > distribution a good idea? Probably (as long as it doesn't get > so big as to cause problems with fitting on a floppy). This is a good idea. We could ask for users to post *at a minumum* the results

Re: [Leaf-devel] libz security

2002-03-12 Thread KP Kirchdörfer
Am Dienstag, 12. März 2002 15:34 schrieb Mike Noyes: > At 2002-03-11 22:37 -0600, David Douthitt wrote: > >On 3/11/02 at 10:42 PM, Manfred Schuler > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >wrote: > > > Today I received this security announcements. > > > If you think, it is not necessary to forward this messa

Re: [Leaf-devel] How do I request help FAQ

2002-03-12 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Tue, 12 Mar 2002, Charles Steinkuehler wrote: [...] > Create a diagnostic disk image. The idea here would be to put everything > needed onto a disk image (which presumably even the greenest user can deal > with, or they wouldn't be having configuration problems :-). There would be > a fairl

Re: [Leaf-devel] How do I request help FAQ

2002-03-12 Thread Ray Olszewski
Having followed the discussion about the use of scripts to collect diagnostic information, I think we are muddling two distinct questions. 1. Is incorporating a "diagnostics" script in into each LEAF distribution a good idea? Probably (as long as it doesn't get so big as to cause problems with fi

Re: [Leaf-devel] How do I request help FAQ

2002-03-12 Thread Charles Steinkuehler
> Not really May I recommend: > > ( echo "Messages log\n" > ) > /tmp/sysdata.txt > > This has several advantages: > > 1. Single file at the end for details - /tmp/sysdata.txt - just attach > and mail. If you use "matt" (new package to attach files to mail!) > you can even mail it right from

Re: [Leaf-devel] How do I request help FAQ

2002-03-12 Thread Jeff Newmiller
On Mon, 11 Mar 2002, David Douthitt wrote: > On 3/11/02 at 1:46 AM, Matt Schalit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > guitarlynn wrote: > > > The section below needs a little more work. The syntax shown > > will overwrite forward.txt. > > > > cp /var/log/messages /mnt/messages.txt > > ip addr sho

Re: [Leaf-devel] libz security

2002-03-12 Thread Mike Noyes
At 2002-03-11 22:37 -0600, David Douthitt wrote: >On 3/11/02 at 10:42 PM, Manfred Schuler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > > > Today I received this security announcements. > > If you think, it is not necessary to forward this message > > to the list, please tell me. > >Should we (as distribution cre