cannot build jed_0.98.7-7

1998-12-05 Thread Kikutani Makoto
Hi, I'm new to this list. I made my package jed-ja (Japanized jed) by deb-make. I want to re-make it by debhelper. Since I'm not familiar with debhelper, I tried to build the current jed package: jed_0.98.7.orig.tar.gz jed_0.98.7-7.diff.gz But I failed as follows.

Re: Cannot install Linux on laptop

1998-12-05 Thread Geoffrey L. Brimhall
Does the kernel at least report on the terminal what it is doing ? If so what are the last things it says ? To my mind, there might be some kernel modules that need to be loaded for the boot to continue - but even in these situations, usually the booting just hangs, and doesn't restart over and ov

Re: automatic password generation

1998-12-05 Thread john
James Troup writes: > Why would you need to [make chrony predepend on pwgen]? You're using it > in the postinst (at least, according to your initial post), so a > dependency is sufficient. Because I didn't know that a dependency would be sufficient. I still can't see adding a dependency to do so

Re: automatic password generation

1998-12-05 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > James Troup writes: > > Y'all do know about the pwgen and makepasswd packages, right? > > I do now. I can't see making chrony predepend on one of them, > though. Why would you need to? You're using it in the postinst (at least, according to your initial post), so a

converted config file ?

1998-12-05 Thread Christian Hammers
Hi ! I have a problem with my wwwoffle package: it has a config file /etc/wwwoffle.conf. When installing I try to convert existing config files with a shipped config file converter and only if that fails because it is the first install of wwwoffle, I copy the example conf file from the /usr/doc.

Re: automatic password generation

1998-12-05 Thread john
James Troup writes: > Y'all do know about the pwgen and makepasswd packages, right? I do now. I can't see making chrony predepend on one of them, though. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI

Re: automatic password generation

1998-12-05 Thread James Troup
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > Daniel Martin writes: > > I'm just curious - how are you going to do this? The best way I came up > > with was: PASS=`head --bytes=16 /dev/urandom | md5sum` > > Clever, but it only produces hex. I want all letters and digits. > This what I'm using: > > until [ `ex

Re: automatic password generation

1998-12-05 Thread john
Daniel Martin writes: > I'm just curious - how are you going to do this? The best way I came up > with was: PASS=`head --bytes=16 /dev/urandom | md5sum` Clever, but it only produces hex. I want all letters and digits. This what I'm using: until [ `expr "$PASSWORD" : ".*"` -ge 8 ] do PAS