Re: Upgrade to Debian testing

[You <linux_user@cogeco.ca>]

On Sun, Aug 06, 2006 at 02:11:21AM +0200, Nicolas François wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 05, 2006 at 07:14:20PM -0400, You wrote:
> > 
> > First, I get the following messages when attempting to begin a session 
> > on the console or via Telnet.   Secure shell sessions do not produce 
> > these messages.  The messages are as follows:
> > 
> > configuration error - unknown item 'FAIL_DELAY' (notify administrator)
> > configuration error - unknown item 'QUOTAS_ENAB' (notify administrator)
> > configuration error - unknown item 'NOLOGIN_STR' (notify administrator)
> > configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_HZ' (notify administrator)
> > configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MAX_LEN' (notify administrator)
> > configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator)
> > configuration error - unknown item 'CLOSE_SESSIONS' (notify 
> > administrator)
> > 
> > Anybody have any idea what all of this stuff is about?   Or where I need 
> > to go to fix it?
> 
> This comes from the login package.
> You can fix this by removing/commenting the lines for these configuration
> variables in /etc/login.defs.
> 
> When you updated login, you should have been asked whether you want to use
> your own /etc/login.defs or use the maintainer's one, or make a diff,
> weren't you?
> 
> There is also an entry in the login's NEWS file about this. It should have
> been displayed if you use apt-listchanges.
> 

Thank you very much. That fixed that problem.   I'm off now to learn about apt-listchanges via Google.