Re: Upgrading 0.93 to R6 - problems

1996-05-26 Thread Dale Scheetz
On Sun, 26 May 1996, Amos Shapira wrote: > Hello, > > I'm trying to upgrade 0.93 to 1.1 according to Dale Scheetz' instrucions > but encounter a basic problem. (Posted on May 16th) > > My setup - an IDE disk used for booting and as root, a SCSI disk used to hold > the debian packages (/mnt) I do

Re: regular (aka bsd) compress distribution?

1996-05-26 Thread Marek Michalkiewicz
> > silly restrictions. And the free world is only 100ms away... > > This is why we moved the mailing list out of the U.S. Yes, it was very good move. But the distribution needs to be moved too. Consider a Debian package which contains four-letter words - say, an improved version of passwd with

Re: regular (aka bsd) compress distribution?

1996-05-26 Thread Marek Michalkiewicz
Mark Eichin: > > > they often come without a C compiler. And it's more than just compress > > Often? Solaris is the only unix I know of that doesn't come with a Add another one: SCO OpenServer 5. Well, the development system is on the CD-ROM, but you can't install it without entering that litt

Re: Cron

1996-05-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Karl Ferguson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just a quick question!! >> >> How can I stop cron sending a message root everytime it runs a script. I >> have a couple of cron jobs that run every 15 minutes and I am getting >> hundreds of messages a day. >> >> Thanks

Upgrading 0.93 to R6 - problems

1996-05-26 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'm trying to upgrade 0.93 to 1.1 according to Dale Scheetz' instrucions but encounter a basic problem. (Posted on May 16th) My setup - an IDE disk used for booting and as root, a SCSI disk used to hold the debian packages (/mnt) I downloaded over the modem so far (i.e. I don't have a full

Re: elf Mtools screw pooch

1996-05-26 Thread Maarten Boekhold
> Since I upgraded to 1.1, all of the ELF versions of mtools have failed > on my system, with the error: > > init: set default params > Can't initialize 'A:' I'm getting the same messages. xconsole says things about floppy time-outs. But I have always had trouble with my 3 1/2 diskdrive under Lin

Re: 2.0 Kernel

1996-05-26 Thread Bruce Perens
Shawn, We will issue a kernel package with 2.0 as soon as it is released. We will keep some of the old ones around for fall-back. Since we are currently running 1.3.95, 1.3.100, and pre2.0.6 in the beta system, going to 2.0 should not be a problem. Thanks Bruce --

2.0 Kernel

1996-05-26 Thread Shawn Asmussen
Since it looks like the 2.0 kernel is not too far beyond the horizon, I was just wondering how long after it's released is it anticipated that Debian will incorporate it. Will it not be until the next major release, or will there be a way to incorporate it directly into a 1.1 system hopefully not t

Re: Quotas problems

1996-05-26 Thread Michael Meskes
Kevin M Bealer writes: > Just for reference, I had to change the fstab to have > "usrquota,grpquota,quota" in it for the fs. After that, edquota gave a nice All three? It should suffice to use 'usrquota' if you want user quotas and 'grpquota' for group quotas. Just 'quota' shouldn't be needed. M

elf Mtools screw pooch

1996-05-26 Thread Ed Donovan
Since I upgraded to 1.1, all of the ELF versions of mtools have failed on my system, with the error: init: set default params Can't initialize 'A:' (approximate transcription) I'm not even sure if this is the system call init or the uber-process init, and haven't succeeded in any attempts to fix

Several ?'s on 1.1 upg, going all-ELF, kernel versions, orphaned a.out binaries

1996-05-26 Thread Ed Donovan
Here are several related questions. I'm running a 1.1 system upgraded from 0.93. All base and devel packages are the latest available in the 'unstable' tree; I'm not completely up to date with the 'Incoming' directory. So I have gcc-2.7.2-8 and libc5/libc5-dev 5.2.18-6. I'm using kernel 1.2.13,

Re: Quotas problems

1996-05-26 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On 22 May 1996, Hugo HAAS wrote: > Hi. > > I've tried to install quotas but I've got a little problem. > When I make an 'edquota someone', I get : > > Quotas for user someone: > > and I don't know what to write after this. > > I've found no informations in the man, or in the docs. So, if someo