Re: debian: cvs server giving permission denied

2001-04-03 Thread Doug McNaught
Brendan J Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've got a CVS server on a PowerMac running Debian GNU Linux > (stable). I can checkout from the repository but I can not do > simple operations like status or update. This only happens when > performing these operations on directories with subdirect

Re: modem works!, battery drains fast?

2001-01-03 Thread Doug McNaught
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Ethan Benson wrote: > > > > does cron not check /etc/cron.d often? i know you can drop files in > > there and cron will use them without restarting it so it must check > > this somehow... > > According to the manpage it does so every minute, and I hav

Re: modem works!, battery drains fast?

2001-01-03 Thread Doug McNaught
Michel Dänzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Doug McNaught wrote: > > > > Another thing you can do, that trades off Unix semantics for battery > > efficiency, is to mount all your filesystems with the 'noatime' > > option. If you don't do this, ev

Re: modem works!, battery drains fast?

2001-01-03 Thread Doug McNaught
Another thing you can do, that trades off Unix semantics for battery efficiency, is to mount all your filesystems with the 'noatime' option. If you don't do this, even reading a file that's in cache will cause a disk write, to update the access time field of the inode. There isn't much on a typic

Re: Install problem No init found

2000-11-04 Thread Doug McNaught
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > BootX: Unperturbed I next installed BootX v1.2.2 into the System Folder using > vmlinux as boot kernel. Things when a little better this time if only because > I had text on screen. But the system still hung at this error message: > > Warning: unable to open init conso

Re: can't play mp3s

2000-10-08 Thread Doug McNaught
Shad Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > ** WARNING **: oss_open(): Failed to open audio device (/dev/dsp): No such > device "No such device" means that the device entry is there but there is no kernel driver attached to it. Make sure you have compiled the driver into the kernel or loaded the

Bug#68804: mount(8) and losetup(8) do not support int. kernel (PATCH)

2000-08-08 Thread Doug McNaught
Package: mount Version: 2.10f-5.1 Debian Woody for PowerPC. Potato seems to share the same mount package so this is a bug in 'frozen' FWIW. Bug applies to all architectures AFAICS. The 'mount' and 'losetup' commands do not work properly with the international kernel. If I compile Serpent into