Re: ldconfig obsoleted by ld.so package

1998-11-12 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 10:22:56PM +0100, Loic Prylli wrote: > > Hello, > > Looks like when you build ldso from source on Alpha (and probably on > powerpc), it now builds just the ldconfig binary, so exactly what was > provided by the ldconfig package. So I guess now the ldconfig package > can no

Re: Debian on Umax APUS

1998-11-12 Thread Daniel Jacobowitz
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 11:29:34PM +0100, Blackie wrote: > > - Can I switch console fonts? Setfont does not work, is there any > alternative? (valkyrie console framebuffer) setfont does indeed work, now. Dan

Debian on Umax APUS

1998-11-12 Thread Blackie
Hi, We have Umax APUS PPC clone with LinuxPPC distribution but we would like to switch to Debian. I tested LinuxPPC bootdisk and Debian base tarball some time ago, it worked in single user only... I would like to ask two questions: - How to boot APUS from IDE harddisk? Now the only way to boot

Re: ldconfig obsoleted by ld.so package

1998-11-12 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Loic Prylli wrote: > I guess it is better to do it now, no package was depending on > ldconfig when I removed it on my system (just had to just > --force-remove-essential), this is logical as it was in base. > Anyway ldso actually "Provides:" ldconfig. That's good. I do rec

Re: ldconfig obsoleted by ld.so package

1998-11-12 Thread Loic Prylli
Christopher C Chimelis writes: > > On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Loic Prylli wrote: > > > Looks like when you build ldso from source on Alpha (and probably on > > powerpc), it now builds just the ldconfig binary, so exactly what was > > provided by the ldconfig package. So I guess now the ldconfig

Re: ldconfig obsoleted by ld.so package

1998-11-12 Thread Christopher C Chimelis
On Thu, 12 Nov 1998, Loic Prylli wrote: > Looks like when you build ldso from source on Alpha (and probably on > powerpc), it now builds just the ldconfig binary, so exactly what was > provided by the ldconfig package. So I guess now the ldconfig package > can now be obsoleted (the ld.so package

ldconfig obsoleted by ld.so package

1998-11-12 Thread Loic Prylli
Hello, Looks like when you build ldso from source on Alpha (and probably on powerpc), it now builds just the ldconfig binary, so exactly what was provided by the ldconfig package. So I guess now the ldconfig package can now be obsoleted (the ld.so package is more current). If nobody objects soon

Starting points to get this running on my machine...

1998-11-12 Thread Jules Bean
Hi, I'm sorry, I'm posting to a list I'm not subscribed to, so please CC: any replies... I've got a Performa 5200, which isn't supported by MkLinux *or* LinuxPPC. It is almost the only powerpc built which doesn't have any support. Apple have pledged that the mklinux project will eventually supp

linux on rs/6000

1998-11-12 Thread Gustavo Torres
I'm trying to have linux installed on a ppc604e-based rs/6000. So, I found this list and subscribed. Could someone help with information, binaries, instalation disks ;-), or else? Thanks for any feedback. Gustavo Torres Aluno Graduacao CIC/UFRGS

Re: sudo oddity

1998-11-12 Thread Wichert Akkerman
Previously Alan Danziger wrote: > I've seen that behavior with a wildly incorrect timestamp file; try "sudo > -k" and see if that helps when you try again. That has been fixed a while ago. Wichert. pgpPAfzXqABzA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: sudo oddity

1998-11-12 Thread Chris Richards
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 04:53:40PM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > > to libpwdb on the mirrors is libpwdb-doc, which i doubt would help my > > situation much. does anyone know where i might find a libpwdb package? > > libpwdb0g is in the lib directory. on which mirror, specifically? i've checked

Re: sudo oddity

1998-11-12 Thread Hartmut Koptein
> to libpwdb on the mirrors is libpwdb-doc, which i doubt would help my > situation much. does anyone know where i might find a libpwdb package? libpwdb0g is in the lib directory. -- Hartmut Koptein EMail: Friedrich-van-Senden-Str. 7

Re: sudo oddity

1998-11-12 Thread Chris Richards
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 01:23:22PM +0100, Hartmut Koptein wrote: > Try:chmod u+s /usr/bin/sudo it was installed with the suid bit set, so that's not an issue (thanks for mentioning it, though, i had neglected to check for that). but i believe i've figured out the problem. from auth.log, imme

Re: sudo oddity

1998-11-12 Thread Alan Danziger
At 4:06 AM -0500 11/12/98, Chris Richards wrote: [...] had -- without typing a thing -- failed to enter a valid password three times. hence it's pretty useless. i checked that my sudoers file I've seen that behavior with a wildly incorrect timestamp file; try "sudo -k" and see if that helps wh

Re: sudo oddity

1998-11-12 Thread Hartmut Koptein
On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 04:06:05AM -0500, Chris Richards wrote: > after installing the latest sudo and adding a user to sudoers with > which to test it, i encountered something strange -- namely, > immediately after i issued a command (for example, 'sudo ls') sudo > would print its ethics banner, a

sudo oddity

1998-11-12 Thread Chris Richards
after installing the latest sudo and adding a user to sudoers with which to test it, i encountered something strange -- namely, immediately after i issued a command (for example, 'sudo ls') sudo would print its ethics banner, and proceed to convince itself that i had -- without typing a thing -- fa