Bug#2069: GNU last doesn't use ut_addr

1995-12-27 Thread Marek Michalkiewicz
Package: last Version: 5-12 The GNU version of last doesn't make use of the ut_addr utmp field which is supposed to contain the IP address for remote logins. The size of ut_host (16 chars) is too small and host names are often truncated. The IP address is the only reliable way to identify the re

The new LILO not working?

1995-12-27 Thread Karl Ferguson
Hi All... I remember seeing the new version of LILO coming out and it was marked that it had to be with ELF etc etc. I also noticed the "mbr" pacakge in the base area for 1.0 - having an ELF system her I just upgraded to the latest of everything, so effectively saying that all the relivent packag

Re: Bug#2063: scsi driver sequence unreasonable

1995-12-27 Thread Jeff Noxon
IMHO, the fewer changes between Debian's kernels and the upstream ones, the better... > You are right, of course. I changed it in 1.3.47 and the DPT (has > NOTHING to do with the AHA drivers) and the Buslogic are at the top. > What other AHA-compatible do we have that should move? I a mopen for

Re: Bug#2065: single user isn't

1995-12-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
You (H.J. Lu) wrote: > Date: Tue, 26 Dec 1995 22:49:53 -0500 (EST) > From: "H.J. Lu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: Bug#2065: single user isn't > To: David Engel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > Which brings up another question: in libc 5.2.18, struct utmp was changed. > > That may be my last emai

Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1995-12-27 Thread Matthew Bailey
For those out there that are interested. I will make space available for these ports, and allow each group to maintain uploads for the subtree. Please contact me if you are in need of an account for this use. -- Matthew S. Bailey 107 Emmons Hall Central Michigan University Mt. Pleasant, MI 4885

Re: binary-alpha and binary-sparc directories

1995-12-27 Thread Dominik Kubla
Hello Ian, you might as well add binary-m68k since the first Debian/68k packages are starting to appear. These packages as well as the necessary source patches are currently stored at U-Mainz: ftp.uni-mainz.de:/pub/Linux/devel/debian/dontuse/m68k/ Curently the follwing packages are available

newbie comments

1995-12-27 Thread Anand Kumria
I just recently had the chance to install, and help a few Linux newbie's install Debian. My comments pertain to 0.93R6 available on FTP sites. Overall we liked it, better than Yggdrasil, and slightly better than Slackware (though I put that down to familiarity). The new users I help install D

tar-1.11.8-3

1995-12-27 Thread Bdale Garbee
This release fixes the problem with specifying a null username when a remote tape is specified to the 'f' argument. Previously, unless the fully qualified form of [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/tapename was used, a segmentation violation and core dump would result before anything else happened.

Bug#2065: single user isn't

1995-12-27 Thread Simon Shapiro
Hi There, > This caused me considerable grief when one of the disks on my system was starting to fail, and I was desperately trying to extract a few critical files that had been updated since the last backup. The cycle was to boot, snag a few files before the disk warmed up and failed, then

Re: Bug#2063: scsi driver sequence unreasonable

1995-12-27 Thread Simon Shapiro
> The file drivers/scsi/hosts.c defines the sequence in which different SCSI > controller cards are identified. The AHA152X driver appears early in the list, > which is unreasonable if there is another, smarter, SCSI controller in the > system... since it will result in the 1510/1522/1522/etc card