Help getting a 2.6 kernel with ports that work

2007-07-24 Thread S. Taylor
Can someone tell me how to get a 2.6 kernel that installs and gives me ports that work? I get ppp.log errors like "Can't get terminal parameters: Input/output error," kern.log says "Serial: 8250/16550 driver $Revision: 1.90 $ 48 ports, IRQ sharing enabled" but "ttyS1: LSR safety check engaged!" M

htdig.conf, htdig-incr.conf make huge files?

2002-03-27 Thread S. Taylor
wwwoffle is calling htdig-incr in cron - but htdig runs for hours and the /var/spool/htdig files use about 227M - those files are unchanged since Nov. 28 (may be install date). This is debian 2.2R3, stable. The htdig.conf is unchanged. What configuration does it need to reduce the file size, and a

Re: Debian Perl packages, modules - how to cleanup extras

2002-02-04 Thread S. Taylor
(specs include: debian 2.2 r3, stable; perl 5.6.1 in /usr/local..) Colin Watson wrote: >On Sun, Feb 03, 2002 at 09:42:08PM -0500, S. Taylor wrote: >> What's Debian's procedure for installing and maintaining perl? >> At the beginning, dselect insisted that packages f

Debian Perl packages, modules - how to cleanup extras

2002-02-03 Thread S. Taylor
What's Debian's procedure for installing and maintaining perl? At the beginning, dselect insisted that packages for perl-5.004 and perl-5.005 be installed. Is it necessary Other lib*-perl packages were installed and recently perl 5.6.1 was compiled, successfully, after most defaults were accepte

/cron.daily/modutils, ksymoops, "No such file"

2001-01-29 Thread S Taylor
modutils tries to cleanup /var/log/ksymoops with the /sbin/insmod_ksymoops_clean script, copying /proc files then rm'ing with find /var/log/ksymoops -type f -atime +2 -exec rm {} \; but it just returns error messages like /etc/cron.daily/modutils: rm: cannot remove `/var/log/ksymoops/200

Re: startx xterm # by root, not user, causes pointer freeze

2001-01-10 Thread S Taylor
On Mon, Jan 08, 2001 at 07:48:18PM -0800, Nate Amsden wrote: > S Taylor wrote: > > > > (touchpad) Pointer Config in XF86Config: > > Section "Pointer" > > Protocol"GlidePoint" > > Device "/dev/mouse" > &g

startx xterm # by root, not user, causes pointer freeze

2001-01-08 Thread S Taylor
(touchpad) Pointer Config in XF86Config: Section "Pointer" Protocol"GlidePoint" Device "/dev/mouse" Port"/dev/mouse" Buttons 3 Where is this pointer freezing up? The problem _may_ have begun after upgrading to potato (apt-get update, apt-get d

Terminals/dim screens = use bold everywhere but dselect is...dim

2000-12-02 Thread S Taylor
Do color monitors die after four years? The boot messages are barely visible; seems they've gotten worse over two months since I installed Debian 2.2. I've got the monitor buttons for brightness and contrast at maximum, setterm=bold within Linux, so I can see. And X allows me to look at dselect. W

Pervasive Permission Problem

1999-09-13 Thread Julian S. Taylor
.org alpher.taylors.org -> 172.16.0.4 NIS R DOMAIN OK This looks like confusion over who I am but on dilthey, I get dilthey:~> ls -l notion -rw--- 1 julian users 16384 Jan 5 1997 notion dilthey:~> ypmatch julian passwd julian:x:501:100:Julian S. Taylor:/home/julian:/usr/bin/tcsh Any ideas? Julian

Re: debian installation

1999-08-21 Thread Julian S. Taylor
Evan, To put this in context, my profession involves developing improved software distribution methodologies and so I compare most software installations against my own research and I'm working as hard as I am because I find most approaches disappointing (not just Debian). I'll try to illuminate

Re: Logging in w/ session-specific passwd

1999-08-15 Thread Julian S. Taylor
> > | When I use cu on Debian I get the message"pppd permission denied". I can > > | use wvdial to my ISP but I can't get into Sun now that I've switched to > > | Debian. What am I doing wrong? > > > > It may be you need to add the group "dialout". By default > > regular users don't hav

Re: What's this about E-Mail support

1999-08-14 Thread Julian S. Taylor
Pollywog wrote: > On 14-Aug-99 Julian S. Taylor wrote: > > Salutations, > > > > I've been dead in the water for weeks now. I'm busy and I don't have > > time to hack into the Debian drivers. I bought the official Debian > > release and registered

What's this about E-Mail support

1999-08-14 Thread Julian S. Taylor
Salutations, I've been dead in the water for weeks now. I'm busy and I don't have time to hack into the Debian drivers. I bought the official Debian release and registered it by snail mail. I was expecting to get back an E-Mail address for the promised 30 days of E-Mail support - never happened. H

Logging in w/ session-specific passwd

1999-08-14 Thread Julian S. Taylor
Salutations, I log in to Sun using a prompt-response method. The server sends down a random number, I make an entry into a calculator and it gives me the password for that session. For this reason, I can't hook up using expect or chat. Using slackware and Caldera, I just log in using cu. Debian's

Getting lprng to /dev/lp1

1999-08-14 Thread Julian S. Taylor
Salutations, I can shut doen lprng and cat /dev/motd to /dev/lp1 but when I turn on lprng, it refuses to print and lpq shows: Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'indianpeaks' Queue: 1 printable job Server: pid 515 active Status: sleeping 10 secs before retry, starting sleep at 08:06:19 Rank Owner/