extracting tar with nonexistant users

Hello, I tried extracting a tar tape on a machine which did not have the same users as the machine on which the tar tape was created, it resulted in all the files created being owned by root. I would have expected that it should have created the files with the same uid/gids as on the original ma

large executables from compile

Hello, I have noticed that a.out's are quite large on my Debian system as compared to a previous Slackware, eg a simple program to print "hello world" is 80k. Using gcc 2.7.2 Any ideas ? Thanks Lennard

inetd dying

Hello, Recently my inetd daemon has been dying leaving no traces. Any ideas on this ? Thanks much, Lennard

icmp redirect messages

Hi, I have a peculiar situation with two machines. On one of them, icmp redirect messages go to the kernel syslog file, on the other the messages go to the console terminal. Yet they both have identical syslog.conf files. If anyone has any ideas, they would be appreciated. Thanks much Lennard

wu-ftpd to do virtuals

Hi, Can anyone tell me what is required to do virtual ftp sites with the standard wu-ftpd distributed on debian ? Thanks much Lennard . -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

lpd with remote filters

Hi, Is there a version of debian lpd which allows the use of filters on remote printers ? Thanks Lennard -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]