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console-log for Debian GNU/Linux
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This package allows you to have arbitrary files tailed on ttys.
This package was built during normal work hours at planNET Systems GmbH,
Karlsruhe, Germany (http://www.planNET.de/). They paid me to do it, so I'll
have to thank them.
Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>, Tue, 25 Apr 2000 17:06:00 +0200
I no longer work for them, but I continue to work on the package on my
own time.
Marc Haber <mh+debian-packages@zugschlus.de>, Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:06:00 +0200
Release Notes
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There is no support for more since more has "v" as a vi escape. This
starts hard-coded /usr/bin/vi with the file currently viewed, and
different files can be opened from there and written. Since the pager
can potentially run as root, this might allow write access to root-only
files, giving instant root to everybody with physical access to the
system console. Since more sucks anyway, this is not a big loss.
Before you file bugs because the user name is ugly
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In late 2003, there was discussion on Debian-devel how to name
accounts created by Debian packages. Unfortunately, no consensus was
reached, and the exim4 packages (maintained by Andreas Metzler and
myself) stepped ahead, choosing Debian-exim as user name. This has
raised a gazillion of "user name is ugly" bugs, but it is extremely
hard to change a user name once chosen.
For console-log, I have decided to adopt exim4's scheme and called the
account "Debian-console-log" to be in sync with current practice.
Bug reports complaining about the choice of user name will be closed
without comment until consensus about naming of Debian user accounts
has been reached and this has been put down in Debian policy.
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