Re: how do i extract a bullet from my foot (tar woes)

2001-08-21 Thread Darren Marsh
allen wayne best just ramblin in his amx wrote: hello: i have managed to insert a bullet in my poda courtesy of tar and my ineptness! that is, i did: tar -cvIf --remove-files /tmp/foo.tz /opt/tmp silly me filled up my current directory with a file called "--remove-files". my quest

Re: Console dead after update

2001-08-21 Thread Darren Marsh
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Tue, Aug 21, 2001 at 06:34:25PM +1000, Darren Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:10:49PM +1000, Darren Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I updated from the testing tree 2 days ago and after all the packages were

Re: Console dead after update

2001-08-21 Thread Darren Marsh
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, Aug 20, 2001 at 07:10:49PM +1000, Darren Marsh ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I updated from the testing tree 2 days ago and after all the packages were installed the keyboard appeared to go dead. The system was still running fine as I could telnet to it and all

Console dead after update

2001-08-20 Thread Darren Marsh
I updated from the testing tree 2 days ago and after all the packages were installed the keyboard appeared to go dead. The system was still running fine as I could telnet to it and all services appeared to be running correctly but it would not accept any input on the console. It's like getty is