Building customized packages

1999-12-22 Thread glhenni
I'd like to install the stock apcupsd module but have found some shortcomings in the pre-packaged version. Namely that I have /usr on it's own partition and when a shutdown is performed, because of a power failure, apcupsd won't power off the UPS because /usr isn't mounted at the point in the halt

Re: TERM=xterm-debian

1999-12-22 Thread glhenni
"Andrew J.F. Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | Whenever I use ssh (I'm not sure about telnet) to connect to the | slakware boxes at work through an xterm or rxvt and try to use pine and | pico etc, I get an error about unknown terminal xterm-debian (or rxvt). | I can solve this by export TERM=x

Re: APC UPS (Back-UPS Pro 650)

1999-12-22 Thread glhenni
"Ralf G. R. Bergs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: | On Tue, 21 Dec 1999 11:27:21 + (/etc/localtime), Alberto Maurizi wrote: | | > I'm getting more and more confused reading all the | > documentation (HOWTO etc ...) about cables, signals, | > and so on. | | So do I. Even worse: NONE of

Re: /var/log

1999-09-14 Thread glhenni
Juli-Manel Merino Vidal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > is it a good idea to clean completly /var/log at every boot (or each > week, etc) ? I'm a single user in my computer. If you're using slink, or potato I imagine, that should be taken care of automatically via a script in /etc/cron.daily called