console-log for Debian GNU/Linux -------------------------------- 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 , 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 , Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:06:00 +0200 Release Notes ============= 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 ================================================== 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.