When kill -9 fails...

1999-07-29 Thread Barry King
I have a server which has a tape drive that has been known to hang up, freezing access to the backup for cron jobs. Naturally, kill -9 fails, but I want to avoid having to reboot when this happens. Is there any mechanism in debian (or linux for that matter - using 2.0.36) for bringing down the

dpkg not installing modules

1997-07-13 Thread Barry King
Upgraded to 1.3 from 1.2 -- noticed the lack of appletalk and netware modules in the base distribution. dpkg would also have trouble getting the module .o files into the appropriate library directories. After a little work with dpkg, depmod and modconf, I got appletalk and ipx modules up and