I need help.

Hello all, My name is Cameron Ball, and i've recently had an interest in linux. I've downloaded the Debian distro image. And i've made a clean partition on my main hard drive. So, i then burnt the image onto a disk, and attempted to boot it. Nothing happened. So i thought it may be that my BI

Re: Duplicate files in man directories

not the same as /usr/man/man5/crontab.5. Also, /usr/man/man1/crontab.1 is not the same as /var/catman/cat1/crontab.1. Steve Greenland -- The Mole - I think, therefore I scream "You can't go in there!" "Yes I can. This is America. I c

Re: Debian 1.2.3

n't know how much the packaging system takes care of obsolete or > old files.) dpkg keeps a list of all the files owned by a package. When you upgrade, any file in the old list that is not in the new package is removed. Steve Greenland -- The Mole

Upgrading to cron-3.0pl1-37

e right process. I'll poke around tonight and see if I can figure the right place to deal with it in the new scripts. Steve Greenland -- The Mole - I think, therefore I scream "He was sweet and sincere and giving and good...

Re: updating packages with dpkg

On Jan 16, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Adam Shand) wrote: > What I want is a way comparing what is currently installed (dpkg -l) with > what is available on my local mirror. > I believe the package you are looking for is dftp (not to be confused with dpkg-ftp). Steve Greenland -- The Mole

Re: cron is dying...

the rc.d links got installed correctly. If not, you can reset them with update-rc.d cron defaults 89 This is fixed in -37, which should show up on the ftp site in the next few days (it's been uploaded, but because it's going into stable, needs to be moved by hand.) Steve -- Th

Re: Install questions

> "Skipping deselected package " cmds? Yet another vote for this :-) Steve Greenland -- The Mole - I think, therefore I scream "Hayl, you know an' I know that th' only way in th' world we can get that kind o&

Re: How come there is no `Reply to' field

ad, and then use the command 'list-reply' (typically bound to 'L') to reply to that list -- it looks through several headers for a potential list address, it doesn't have to be in the "To:" field. It's better than 'reply-all' (IMO

Re: cron

On Dec 20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vociferous Mole) wrote: > update-rc cron defaults That should be update-rc.d cron defaults Sorry, steve -- The Mole - I think, therefore I scream "Not only is God dead, but just try to find

Re: cron

hen I converted to the new source format, and cron doesn't get started automatically. Try these two commands to correct the problem: update-rc cron defaults /etc/init.d/cron start I'll be able to upload a corrected package after 12/28/96. Steve Greenland -- The Mole - I

Re: fork()ing and SIGKILL and SIGSTOP

eep track of all of the child pids, and then when receiving SIGTERM, kill the children (kill()), and then wait for them to terminate (wait() or waitpid()). Steve Greenland -- The Mole - I think, therefore I scream "Addison, what are we going to do?"