Re: Quotas problems

1996-05-26 Thread Kevin M Bealer
On 22 May 1996, Hugo HAAS wrote: Hi. I've tried to install quotas but I've got a little problem. When I make an 'edquota someone', I get : Quotas for user someone: and I don't know what to write after this. I've found no informations in the man, or in the docs. So, if someone has

Several ?'s on 1.1 upg, going all-ELF, kernel versions, orphaned a.out binaries

1996-05-26 Thread Ed Donovan
Here are several related questions. I'm running a 1.1 system upgraded from 0.93. All base and devel packages are the latest available in the 'unstable' tree; I'm not completely up to date with the 'Incoming' directory. So I have gcc-2.7.2-8 and libc5/libc5-dev 5.2.18-6. I'm using kernel

elf Mtools screw pooch

1996-05-26 Thread Ed Donovan
Since I upgraded to 1.1, all of the ELF versions of mtools have failed on my system, with the error: init: set default params Can't initialize 'A:' (approximate transcription) I'm not even sure if this is the system call init or the uber-process init, and haven't succeeded in any attempts to

Re: Quotas problems

1996-05-26 Thread Michael Meskes
Kevin M Bealer writes: Just for reference, I had to change the fstab to have usrquota,grpquota,quota in it for the fs. After that, edquota gave a nice All three? It should suffice to use 'usrquota' if you want user quotas and 'grpquota' for group quotas. Just 'quota' shouldn't be needed.

2.0 Kernel

1996-05-26 Thread Shawn Asmussen
Since it looks like the 2.0 kernel is not too far beyond the horizon, I was just wondering how long after it's released is it anticipated that Debian will incorporate it. Will it not be until the next major release, or will there be a way to incorporate it directly into a 1.1 system hopefully not

Re: 2.0 Kernel

1996-05-26 Thread Bruce Perens
Shawn, We will issue a kernel package with 2.0 as soon as it is released. We will keep some of the old ones around for fall-back. Since we are currently running 1.3.95, 1.3.100, and pre2.0.6 in the beta system, going to 2.0 should not be a problem. Thanks Bruce --

Re: elf Mtools screw pooch

1996-05-26 Thread Maarten Boekhold
Since I upgraded to 1.1, all of the ELF versions of mtools have failed on my system, with the error: init: set default params Can't initialize 'A:' I'm getting the same messages. xconsole says things about floppy time-outs. But I have always had trouble with my 3 1/2 diskdrive under Linux

Upgrading 0.93 to R6 - problems

1996-05-26 Thread Amos Shapira
Hello, I'm trying to upgrade 0.93 to 1.1 according to Dale Scheetz' instrucions but encounter a basic problem. (Posted on May 16th) My setup - an IDE disk used for booting and as root, a SCSI disk used to hold the debian packages (/mnt) I downloaded over the modem so far (i.e. I don't have a

Re: Cron

1996-05-26 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Karl Ferguson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just a quick question!! How can I stop cron sending a message root everytime it runs a script. I have a couple of cron jobs that run every 15 minutes and I am getting hundreds of messages a day. Thanks in advance.

Re: regular (aka bsd) compress distribution?

1996-05-26 Thread Marek Michalkiewicz
Mark Eichin: they often come without a C compiler. And it's more than just compress Often? Solaris is the only unix I know of that doesn't come with a Add another one: SCO OpenServer 5. Well, the development system is on the CD-ROM, but you can't install it without entering that little

Re: regular (aka bsd) compress distribution?

1996-05-26 Thread Marek Michalkiewicz
silly restrictions. And the free world is only 100ms away... This is why we moved the mailing list out of the U.S. Yes, it was very good move. But the distribution needs to be moved too. Consider a Debian package which contains four-letter words - say, an improved version of passwd with a