[tech] screen

Nick Bannon nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Wed Oct 31 22:41:15 WST 2001


On Wed, Oct 31, 2001 at 09:35:20AM +0800, James Bromberger wrote:
> And chmod 0755 /var/run/screen.
> 
> Fixed.

Apparently, it's libc6's fault. According to IRC, the way to go is ;
 * Downgrade to libc6 2.2.4-3 in woody (from 2.2.4-4 in sid)
 * Leave screen alone - chmod 775 /var/run/screens; chmod 2755 /usr/bin/screen

Done (plus libc6 2.2.4 dependencies and a switch to en_AU locale), and
I've also added the joyous thing that is package pinning. mussel will
now only automatically upgrade to testing packages, but you can get
unstable ones with a simple ;

apt-get install foo/unstable

This is does with /etc/apt/preferences (man 5 apt_preferences) and
adding both testing and unstable to /etc/apt/sources.list .

mussel: /etc>cat /etc/apt/preferences
Package: *
Pin: release a=testing
Pin-Priority: 900

Package: *
Pin: release o=Debian
Pin-Priority: -10
mussel: /etc>

Nick.

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