doc for building a deb

Hola~ I've got a set of documentation that I would like to package as a deb so that it is easier to rev across several machines. So, I've got a directory that contains html and man pages. I want a deb file that installs these files to the doc and man directory. Is there a document that describes

fs switching to read-only

Hola~ After a nasty system hang, I power cycled the machine, fsck ran and found enough errors to bootup readonly. I ran fsck by hand, which found some more problems, but nothing that seemed all that out of the ordinary. I rebooted again and all seemed well with the world. Now, if I try to access

playing quicktime movies (raw format)

Hola~ Is there a special package I need to have xanim play quicktime movies? I write out a quicktime movie using either raw, jpeg, or yuv2 using libquicktime4linux. If I display that movie on sgi, it displays fine. If I run qtinfo or qtdump, it correctly groks the file. However, xanim: %

Re: X11 hork after apt-get dist-upgrade

Hola~ Running unstable on two machines, both now hork after running apt-get dist-upgrade. I believe the error is an ssh configuration because the .xsession-errors contains: /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xinit/xinitrc: /usr/bin/ssh-agent sh /root/.xsession: No such file or directory root's .xsession

gimp version in unstable

Hola~ For the longest time, I couldn't figure out why my gimp version was at 1.0.4 while gimp 1.2 had been out for quite some time. As it turns out, the package for gimp 1.2 is gimp1.2, which will not upgrade over 1.0.4 unless explicitly installed. As it turns out, this isn't the only package

SIOCSIFADDR neighbour table overflow

Hola~ I try to keep up with unstable (I run apt-get dist-upgrade about once a week). Anyway, after a power failure, my machine is not in a happy state. Trying to run ifconfig I receive: % ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor lo: unknown interface: Bad file

bad network after power failure

Hola~ After a power failure, my network did not come back. The network driver loads, but ifconfig isn't really happy: % ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 SIOCSIFADDR: Bad file descriptor ifconfig to eth0 returns the same error. Also, I'm getting neighbour table overflow messages randomly spewed to