curious syslog line
Mar 23 15:44:01 mustard modprobe: can't locate module char-major-6 this line keeps showing up in my syslog file, has been since somtime moving from Debian hamm--slink and kernel 2.0.36--2.2.3. does anyone know what this might be? thanks, rcy
Re: Boot disk swiped, how to make one?
On Sat, Mar 13, 1999 at 12:01:10AM -0500, Jim Bray wrote: Grub, the Grand Unified Boot Loader, actually understands ext2 (altho' when I tried it it didn't do symlinks, and I like to have vmlinuz be a symlink). So if you are using Grub, these problems don't arise. Grub should eventually replace lilo. i believe grub 0.5.9x now supports symlinks. rcy
Re: Using crontab to update Debian
On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 11:43:50PM -0700, John Galt wrote: There is a holdover command from Berkely Unix called yes used almost exclusively in scripting--what it does is continuously applies yes^M (the ^M is a representation of the return key) [wups--apparently it replies only y now] while it's active. So what your script line would be is yes | apt-get -d dist-upgrade, thus the script can run an interactive program relatively non-interactively. The only caveat here is it will ONLY reply yes^M There is also a command called no for when you wish to reply no to any input. actually, you can type anything after yes and it will continuously output that string. ie: $ yes no no no no ... rcy
color broken after slink upgrade
I recently did an apt-get dist-upgrade on my hamm system to upgrade to slink. Everything worked smoothly, except now I notice that I am not getting color in a few places that I used to, namely aalib stuff and nethack. Where there was color before in these programs I simply get inverse text. ls --color still works, as does mutt, dselect, and mc. Note that I am not running X windows, this is all on the plain text console. Does anyone have any ideas as to what might have happened here? I assume its related to upgrading ncurses and or slang. Thanks, rcy
