Hi Marc, thank you for fixing the ls or seeing to it and I hope the ps and other utilities (top too I think) will follow suit, although for me it was much easier to get rid of that one over 8 chars long user/group name. On the other hands its good that such shortcomming in out basic utilities was revealed and fixed. What I don't understand, as you say, if its just important for the large installations, why it cannot be them to change the user/group name, instead many users that don't have the problem are forced to change it to something sensible. Also, I'd like to ask if when I do my change from Debian-exim to exim, if that will be honored (per debian policy) on the package upgrade. And last, I'd like to ask again, if it was too much hassle to actually put that as an option in the pre install script. Although I recognize the name is compiled in the package, maybe the large installs could get a source package? I am sorry to bring that issue, I know you work hard to get that package working and I am glad I don't have any other complaints :) Thank you, -Jiri On Mon 26-07-04 22:50:07, Marc Haber wrote: > On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:51:40 -0400, Stephen Frost <sfrost@snowman.net> > wrote: > >Sorry, the argument doesn't go both ways- there *are* problems w/ > >a username of 'Debian-exim', the many bugs you see filed about it bear > >this out. > > Please, give me one bug number that shows a real problem caused by > Debian-exim. The standard arguments are ps and ls, the ls issue being > solved in the current ls. > > |[3/503]mh@lefler:~$ sudo ls -al /var/spool/exim4/ > |total 20 > |drwxr-x--- 5 Debian-exim Debian-exim 4096 May 22 14:39 . > |drwxr-xr-x 7 root root 4096 Jun 27 10:09 .. > |drwxr-x--- 2 Debian-exim Debian-exim 4096 May 22 15:45 db > |drwxr-x--- 2 Debian-exim Debian-exim 4096 Jul 26 20:58 input > |drwxr-x--- 2 Debian-exim Debian-exim 4096 Jul 26 20:58 msglog > |[4/503]mh@lefler:~$ > > Btw, please show the relevant standard that forbids long user names > with - and capitals. > > Greetings > Marc > > -- > -------------------------------------- !! No courtesy copies, please !! ----- > Marc Haber | " Questions are the | Mailadresse im Header > Karlsruhe, Germany | Beginning of Wisdom " | Fon: *49 721 966 32 15 > Nordisch by Nature | Lt. Worf, TNG "Rightful Heir" | Fax: *49 721 966 31 29 > -- Jiri Klouda <jk@zg.cz> http://www.zg.cz/~jk
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