Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

2007-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Oleg Verych wrote: > Bob Proulx wrote: > I'm just a user, but developers seem to have some problems in the > past: #208848. But Bug#208848 says that cron needed a dependency upon adduser, which it now has because of that bug. Reading that bug this was specifically for build daemons with a minimum

Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

2007-07-26 Thread Oleg Verych
* Bob Proulx (Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:48:18 -0600) > > Oleg Verych wrote: [--] >> Funny, i've discovered, how bloated adduser is yesterday, while >> developing my aggressive distro-cleaner. Now i'm thinking about >> writing patches at least for exim4 and cron to have support for >> ordinary useradd fro

Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

2007-07-26 Thread Bob Proulx
Oleg Verych wrote: > Rick Spillane wrote: > > In the future, I will *not* use adduser, and I would > > recommend that Debian have this application not be in the default path > > or some substitute that issues a warning. Strange. adduser has always worked perfectly for me. > Funny, i've discovere

Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

2007-07-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jul 25, 2007 at 09:46:15PM -0400, Rick Spillane wrote: > OK. So I investigated what statoverride is, and its a list of names > that can be used to install packages under. I checked > /var/lib/dpkg/statoverride, and it seems as though there is indeed a > name 'root' in there, thus doubling m

Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

2007-07-26 Thread Oleg Verych
* Rick Spillane (26-07-2007) > OK, I've figured it out. adduser modifies /etc/group apparently, and > relatively significantly. I was able to fix all my problems by looking > at Octavio's /etc/group, and adding the groups that looked like they > were missing. In the future, I will *not* use adduse

Re: adduser kills sound pt. 3

2007-07-25 Thread Rick Spillane
OK, I've figured it out. adduser modifies /etc/group apparently, and relatively significantly. I was able to fix all my problems by looking at Octavio's /etc/group, and adding the groups that looked like they were missing. In the future, I will *not* use adduser, and I would recommend that Debian