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[Savannah-hackers] Re: CVS repository going noexec and syncmail related
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Mathieu Roy |
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[Savannah-hackers] Re: CVS repository going noexec and syncmail related thingies |
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23 Sep 2003 09:17:44 +0200 |
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Totally ok, go for it :)
Vincent Caron <address@hidden> said:
> Hello hackers,
>
> here is some information that could make a Savannah news post, I
> let the admins judge/edit/post it. Due to some funny chaining of
> events, I happened to handle some consequences of the CVS repository
> going noexec (very nice idea BTW, rooting the old RedHats running on
> SF is way to easy - not that I tried :)).
>
> --
>
> For security reasons, the CVS repositories are now hosted on
> non-executable mounts. It means that if you uploaded various tools and
> script (most notably mail-on-commits items), they won't work from
> now. However the Savannah team tried to offer some (better)
> replacement solutions.
>
> Syncmail users : the latest version from the main branch of Syncmail
> (revision 1.36 from http://syncmail.sf.net) has been installed. Please
> replace occurences of '$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/syncmail' with a simple
> 'syncmail' in your CVS control files.
>
> Log_accum/Commit_prep users : Savannah has some in-house-tweaked
> versions installed that should still fit your needs. Strip
> '$CVSROOT/CVSROOT/' parts from the script inovocations.
>
> CIAbot users : until someone comes up with a patch (ie. no hardcoded
> project values), we can't fix that issue.
>
> Other strange scripts : please contact <address@hidden>.
>
> Please note that the latest version of CVSreport
> (http://www.nongnu.org/cvsreport/) has been installed and can replace
> the previous scripts with more versatility in many cases. Add a single
> line like the following in your CVSROOT/commitinfo to try it :
>
> ALL cvsreport -e 'mail text+html address@hidden'
>
> [Sorry for the inconvenience, happy hacking, etc ?]
>
> --
>
> If you hackers are okay with this, I'll update the Savannah docs
> accordingly.
>
> I've also grepped for all exec'able in projects CVSROOTs, the list is
> in /root/cvsroot_script_list. Maybe it would be helpful to be
> preventive about bugreports (this is what triggered my action) and try
> to forward this message directly to the admins of the identified
> projects (they are 'only' 32). List attached.
>
> a2ps
> adonthell
> cp-tools
> directvnc
> dolibarr
> dotgnu-pnet
> dpge
> epnadmin
> gnokii
> gnueval
> gnulib
> jilc
> l4hurd
> lilypond
> make
> moss
> nuxeo
> openap
> paragui
> phpgroupware
> qhull
> mhonarc
> vnix
> py-rrdtool
> nmh
> dotgnu-libs
> ftba
> grdesktop
> ayttm
> pysysinfo
> hangul
> giftcurs
> stratagus
>
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