curious syslog line

1999-03-24 Thread Ryan Yeske
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?

1999-03-13 Thread Ryan Yeske
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 r

Re: Using crontab to update Debian

1999-03-11 Thread Ryan Yeske
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]

color broken after slink upgrade

1999-02-21 Thread Ryan Yeske
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 -