On Tue Apr 17, 2001 at 06:40:41PM +0200, Buchan Milne wrote:

> I was wondering if there might be a need for another list, meant for
> mandrake users who are administering machines used on networks. There
> are a number of issues that I would like to discuss, but feel that since
> they are not technically security issues I would prefer not to discuss
> here.

Fair enough (and good for keeping on topic).

[...]

> I have made RPMs of the samba 2.2.0alpha3 release, which seem to work ok
> so far (including allowing Windows 2000 clients t join the domain).. I
> have let the Mandrake samba maintainer (based on th spec file changelog)
> know all this, but have had no reply. What should I do now? Use the RPMs
> myself only? Let security-discuss know I have done this and make SRPMs
> (or just the spec file) available? Are there any people who would be
> willing to test them?

For this, I would make the built rpms and/or srpms available somewhere
(ftp) and post something on cooker/expert lists to let people know of
their availability. Many people do this, and it's considered
acceptable. Obviously right now with 8.0 just coming out, no one will
be looking at it for the main distro, but once it is out and cooker is
open again, I would email the maintainer again and ask them to look
into doing the update. It shouldn't take that long for it to get into
cooker, although it probably will not show up in updates unless there
is a security flaw.

> Those is favour of a new list (admin-userslinux-mandrake.com?)???
>
> If there is enough support here, Vince can you try and see if
> Mandrakesoft can support another list?

I will ask the question. If there is no good response, I can setup
another list here similar to mdk-securityfreezer-burn.org (an
alternative to security-discuss/security-announce for when there were
many mailing list problems). One reason I think it might be opposed
is the resources for it... there are some... issues... with the
mailing lists occassionally due to high load, and adding another
mailing list might escalate the problem a bit.

I will setup a mdk-adminfreezer-burn.org mailing list a little later
on today for the time being. If an official list comes out,
excellent, but if not, that one can be used. I will post any results
to this list to let everyone know.

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