deluser? (and timezone, and careless use of dpkg)
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
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