On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 10:27:41PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote: > Hello! > > I've come up with a bunch of practical questions around the Debian Slink > distribution:
Hello, I'll try to answer a few of them: > 2) /cdrom isn't given an entry in /etc/passwd after a fresh install, > even if it has been used during all the installation and there > is a /cdrom directory for it: this is a note for the next > installation procedure While you probably meant /etc/fstab, this would be a useful feature. > 5) On a server I installed (hamm upgraded to slink), the wwwoffle > daily maintenance script happen to kill the wwwoffle daemon; I > didn't happen to discover why is it doing this, and I can't just > work around it putting /etc/init.d/wwwoffle start as the last > line in the maintenance script because I can't guess what state > wwwoffle was before being killed (e.g. online, offline, > autodial) It doesn't here (also upgraded from hamm to slink). The script simply calls wwwoffle -purge. Maybe there's a wwwoffle.dpkg-dist file in /etc/cron.daily. > 8) I've never been able to use the multi_cd access method of > dselect: I always happen to see only the contents of the first > cd, while with apt I need every cd mounted to see them both. For > the former, I know it's my fault, for the latter I understood I > have to wait for potato to be able to use apt with multiple cd: > am I right? And for multi_cd, what's the right way of operation? > I have never been asked for the second CD. When setting up (or was it updating?) multi_cd, you have to insert the _last_ binary CD of your set. HTH, Robert -- Robert Vollmert [EMAIL PROTECTED]
