For those of you who thought you'd never see the words
cutting-edge and Debian in the same sentence, I have a surprise
of sorts.

We're going to take a shot at maintaining on kronos an
installation of sid (Debian's unstable tree) in parallel with its
stable files.  I've set the system up to grab new packages each
day, so you can expect the software there to stay fresh.

It is contained in a "chroot" environment, but it contains some
services, including crond, atd, and sshd.  You can access it by
sshing to a special port number, port 122.

$ ssh -p 122 kronos.truman.edu

Your usual home directory is mapped, so you will have all of your
files.

To scp files there, use some form of:

$ scp -P 122 localfile kronos.truman.edu:.

Most things should work exactly like usual, although you'll find a
few differences with programs like mount and df.

Try it out.  Let me know if there are more packages that should
be installed.  Let me know if you come across glitches that can
be fixed.  Let me know if you like it.

Don


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Don Bindner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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