Since upgrading from Sarge to Etch I get the following output when I call
"su" from a user terminal:

[felixk@ ~]$ su
Password:
configuration error - unknown item 'FAIL_DELAY' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'QUOTAS_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'NOLOGIN_STR' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'ENV_HZ' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'PASS_MAX_LEN' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'CHFN_AUTH' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'CLOSE_SESSIONS' (notify administrator)

Regrettably, the administrator (me) is unable to help.

What needs fixing?

Felix Karpfen

Henk Oegema oegema.com> writes:

Put spaces on either side of the = in test.

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 21:01:49 +0100, Henk Oegema wrote:

The bash program below is a (test) program to test the values of a USB
interface card.

The lines in front are only for clarification.

When an input port on the USB card gets activated, then the variable
digital_inputs changes (in line 11).
I checked that with line 12
The next time the while statement executes (in line 8) it should be false,
and the while loop should stop.

This doesn't happen. :(

What is my mistake? (don't get a syntax error)

How do I determine the charset on my Debian machine?

I want to read a certain value from a usb device printout, like this:

asterisk:/proc# k8055 -m:1
Velleman Device Found @ Address 018 Vendor 0x010cf Product ID 0x05500
get driver name: could not get bound driver: No data available
Found interface 0
Took over the device
232;0;119;132;2;1

The value I'm interested in is the last line
232;0;119;132;2;1
and then the second value (in this case 0)

I've been trying with the 'cut' command. But I don't know how to pick out
only the last line.
May be I need another approach. (?)

rgds
Henk

Hello,
I installed via "apt-get install gcc" the GNU C-Compiler (on a Debian etch
machine), but when compiling no standard-libraries are found (stdio.h).
What went wrong?
Richard

Is there a bash script command (a function ?) which I can use in a bash
script to wait a number of seconds, before the next command executes?

Something like: wait(5) so that the program waits 5 seconds. ?

Grds
Henk

I've got several downloads with PAR 2.0 checksum files. Unfortunately par2
(version 0.4) detects that several of the files are missing because some
ofthe filenames are all uppercase instead of the lowercase that the files
originally existed as.

Is there a switch I can specify to tell par2 to ignore the case of a
filename? MAN page doesn't seem to indicate one, and I don't see one
searching online.

Is there a command line alternative to par2? Which would be recommended for
this Debian Lenny PC?

Thanks!

Hi Debian people!

I'm about to "aptitude -f --with-recommends dist-upgrade" a Woody
installation prior to taking it all the way to Etch.

I've done the installation of Woody's aptitude which I have then
upgraded to Sarge's aptitude. The one thing I have doubts about is the
MySQL upgrade process - does the upgrade handle all the changes to the
tables or will I have to do it manually?

TIA,
Ian