Re: Flushing the slink question cache
On Tue, Jun 22, 1999 at 10:27:41PM +0200, Enrico Zini wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I've come up with a bunch of practical questions around the Debian Slink
> distribution:
Hello,
I'll try to answer a few of them:
> 2) /cdrom isn't given an entry in /etc/passwd after a fresh install,
> even if it has been used during all the installation and there
> is a /cdrom directory for it: this is a note for the next
> installation procedure
While you probably meant /etc/fstab, this would be a useful feature.
> 5) On a server I installed (hamm upgraded to slink), the wwwoffle
> daily maintenance script happen to kill the wwwoffle daemon; I
> didn't happen to discover why is it doing this, and I can't just
> work around it putting /etc/init.d/wwwoffle start as the last
> line in the maintenance script because I can't guess what state
> wwwoffle was before being killed (e.g. online, offline,
> autodial)
It doesn't here (also upgraded from hamm to slink). The script simply
calls wwwoffle -purge. Maybe there's a wwwoffle.dpkg-dist file in
/etc/cron.daily.
> 8) I've never been able to use the multi_cd access method of
> dselect: I always happen to see only the contents of the first
> cd, while with apt I need every cd mounted to see them both. For
> the former, I know it's my fault, for the latter I understood I
> have to wait for potato to be able to use apt with multiple cd:
> am I right? And for multi_cd, what's the right way of operation?
> I have never been asked for the second CD.
When setting up (or was it updating?) multi_cd, you have to insert the
_last_ binary CD of your set.
HTH, Robert
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Robert Vollmert rvollmert@gmx.net
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