Debian 1.1beta problems
Hi,
I have recently installed debian (1.1beta) for the first time, my
previous system being Slackware 3.0. I have had a number of problems
and would appreciate some help.
* My machine name is "destiny" and when trying to rlogin from destiny
to destiny I get the following problem:
> rlogin destiny -l root
destiny.phillips.com.au: Network is unreachable
could the problem be that in the installation setup, I specified my
machine as a nameserver - should I have not done this?
* Why do I automatically get an xterm coming up when I start X? It
didn't happen with Slackware.
* I've installed color-ls but I still don't get color? The same
for X.
* Why is pppd not setuid root, like the PPP-Howto says it should be?
Is the PPP-Howto the best document to read about PPP for debian - or
is there some debian specific documentation?
* Why is there no ppp-off script?
* When using dselect to install some software, I got a conflict
between cpp and gcc. This doesn't make sense does it? Surely you
need both?
* Is it true that dselect automatically updates to newer versions of
packages (if a newer version appears in the directory structure and
you run dselect)? What do you do if you want to reinstall the same
version of a package - can you do it? (for example you might want to
re - set it up)
* I had some errors when doing a man:
Updating index cache for path 'usr/man'. Wait...man can't open
/usr/man/man2/modules.2: No such file or directory
man: warning:/usr/man/man2/create-module.2 bad symlink or ROFF '.so'
request
...
...
... and more messages like this
Well that's enough problems for now. Thanks in advance for your help.
Mark Phillips.
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