Does deluser come with a different name in Debian? Or should I just do rm -r on the user's home directory and delete them from /etc/passwd by hand? It's just that editing /etc/passwd by hand is one of those things my mummy told me a good boy never never never does. On the other hand, what could possibly go wrong if I just have to delete one line...
> > I installed Debian 0.93 R5 and configured the Eastern timezone. I > > answered the question "Is your system clock set to GMT?" NO because the > > PC clock is set to my local time. Now the PC boots DOS and shows the > > proper time but Linux/Debian shows the time as off by 4 hours late. > > I'm willing to bet it is still that bug I reported about clock being > set before the drives are mounted. Try going into /etc/init.d/boot > and moving the clock stuff to after the drives are mounted. So that was what caused it! I had this problem with 0.93R5. Then I carelessly set dpkg --unpack to work on a tree which contained (among other things) the latest base packages, and it upgraded them all. This made me rather nervous because of half-remembered warnings from Ian M that this was not a good thing to do, but the system still seems to run, and the timezone problem went away (new version of sysvinit - new /etc/init.d/boot). So if Paul Kirschner feels like being reckless, he could try that. I sure feel better now I know why I had the timezone problem originally. Maybe I should learn to RTFBug Reports. Actually, dpkg, which I had previously upgraded, also came across version 0.93.42.3 of itself (the new version was elsewhere) and --force-downgraded itself (by default), which caused me further consternation when it came to configuring the unpacked packages. I figured that they had been unpacked by the new version, so I re-upgraded it against the stringent warnings of 50-odd unpacked but unconfigured packages, and all turned out well. At least I think so... Regards Philip
