Re: why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt

d for me the other way round using apt-get. qmail was installed. apt-get install exim // removed qmail and installed exim -ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Open Source <-- -> Online-Petit

Re: Modprobe and modules - is this a problem?

ly does not > unload them. Can someone tell me why? If you load modules with 'modprobe module_name' they will not be automatically removed. 'modprobe -k modules_name' will enable this feature. (--> man modprobe) -ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Recommended File and User sharing between Debian systems?

ir information up to 60 seconds. (--> man nfs) > > Can anyone point me in the right direction? > > i would say what your looking for is NFS for file sharing, just read > up on it and do what you can to maintain security. There is nothing I can add. -ff -- Florian Friesdo

Re: why so hard to decline recommend packages dselect/apt

-get/dpkg/dselect), it won't conflict with exim - same with ucspi-tcp-src and if you need serialmail-src - run build-qmail, you will get a debian package which you can install as I discribed in my last mail (see above) - same with ucspi-tcp and serialmail -ff -- Florian Friesdorf &l

Re: Question about kernels and packages

gt; kernel while/after I upgrade to potato. What is the most appropriate > FM or section of some FM for me to read to get an idea on how to > deal with kernels through the package system? Install kernel-package and have a look on /usr/share/doc/kernel-package -ff -- Florian

Re: XFree4.0.1 on potato

it without breaking dependencies (I think > lots of packages depend on X)? Have look at http://www.debian.org/~branden/. -ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Open Source <-- -> On

Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim

il to exim. my fetchmailrc looks very similar, except I'm not using the "mda" option. Somehow fetchmail knows how to contact exim. But if you use the mda option, I think it should be mda /usr/bin/exim -bs That's the way exim gets called from inetd. -ff -- Florian Friesdor

Re: Kernel parameter (hisax) lets kernel hang

e LILO to do the same thing? I´d love to get a hint. Compile Hisax as a module and use modconf to set the parameters. Works fine for me. -ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Open Source &l

Re: Debian packages..

versions are propogating right now, and it may take a day. Thanks, Jason Debian Mirroring end debian-mirrors -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Open Source <-- -> Online-Petition against Software Patents <- --> http://petition.eurolinux.org <--- pgpsA9vlkqKOd.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: installing Netscape Navigator 4.75

talled the debs from potato-proposed-updates and they have strong encryption. (checked with www.fortify.net) Does anybody know, why this is possible now? -ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Open Sourc

Re: exim headaches

my email address > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on outgoing mail but not on local mail? I just installed the exim package and chose dialup site. After telling it the corresponding values it worked fine. I think you can run the configuration again, using eximconfig. -ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EM

Re: Loading modules at boot time.

es is loaded at boottime. options and pre/post-installs are taken from /etc/modules.conf. btw: /etc/modules.conf is generated by update-modules from files in /etc/modutils -ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --&g

Re: Realtek 8129/8139 support

seems stable (at least the last to hours). (driver: 8139too) I copied approx. one gig over the network and the driver was going two times faster than the old 2.2.17 rtl8139. The old one always died after some time and needed an ifconfig eth0 down - ifconfig eth0 up. -ff -- Florian

Re: nVidia geForce + X == error?

mental xfree86 4.0.1 deb packages (I think phase1v18 - http://www.debian.org/~branden) with kernel 2.4.0-test7 and the current nvidia drivers (0.9-4), but wasn't able to compile the nvidia kernel module. -ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on p

Re: Source directory

belongs to root except for the modules dir hierarchy which is owned by build. with kernel-package I also make a kernel-headers debian package which installs to /usr/src/kernel-header.. /usr/src/linux points to the headers of the running kernel (in /usr/src/, so I can "mess up" my kernel-

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

wever I cannot believe you were running the same kernel version for that long, either. (not offending, just curious) -ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Open Source <-- -> Online-Peti

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

g is rather old, but for completeness: I needed to put an DPkg:: in front of the lines, to make them work. DPkg::Pre-Invoke {"mount -o remount,rw /usr";}; DPkg::Post-Invoke {"suidregister";}; DPkg::Post-Invoke {"mount -o remount,ro /usr";}; -ff -- Florian Fri

Re: A series of newbieite questions

> usually > change the default runlevel in /etc/inittab so that I boot up in text mode and > am still able to to use startx to get into X. Well, I don't think it's that drastic. AFAIK you don't need xdm installed in order to use startx. At least it works for me.

Re: Setting up IP aliasing, cannot find kernel modules

kernels, but afaik in 2.2.x it is as said above compiled into the kernel and not a module. -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Open Source <-- -> Online-Petition against Software Patents <-

Re: xscreensaver

ed, but I think this is, at least on my system, done by the bios. c'ya flo -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Open Source <-- -> Online-Petition against Software Patents <- ---

Re: How can I make new partitions available? (maybe repost)

hmm. doesn't this work with fdisk? try running fdisk and let it write > the partition table. imho, it 'reloads' the table... afaik, if there are any mounted partitions on the disk, the kernel won't be able to reload the partition table. c'ya flo -- Florian Friesd

Re: DNS conflicts telnet

ogin. I don't know what's happening here > The strange is, when I running named, and try a connection by telnet, I can > see the process in.telnetd running, responding to the requisition, but no > prompt!!! that would fit into the above scenario. c'ya flo -- Florian

Re: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

your physical hard disk. > > On Tue, 8 Aug 2000, Ethan Pierce wrote: > > > (...) > > password, which will always work? > > The BIOS is a Phoenix version 4.04. -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers

Re: Mail configuration and setup

send mails all the time or collect them until the dial-on-demand is up, you need serialmail, too. Have a look at the qmail FAQ. c'ya flo -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Open So

procmail - filtering already received mails

working disadvantage: it is incredibly slow (5 seconds per mail) Does anybody know a better solution. tia ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Open Source <-- -> Online-Petition agai

Re: procmail - filtering already received mails

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 03:28:48AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > Hello all, > > I'm trying to filter already received mails (in a maildir) through procmail. > My latest "approach" is executing > > for i in `ls`; do > echo -n "$i: "; >

Re: still unable to get kernel source

displays either gzipped and plan text files. So if you put an alias less="zless" into somewhere it gets executed, your less will work for both. -ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Open Source

Re: procmail - filtering already received mails

On Mon, Aug 14, 2000 at 03:54:22PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > for i in `ls`; do > > > echo -n "$i: "; > > > procmail < $i && rm $i; > > > echo "done."; &g

Re: need to constantly force-reload networking

've tried to go to the search at www.debian.org, but it is one of the > pages that seems to kill me. Help! > > hawk What kind of network adapter do you have? I expierenced similar problems with the rtl8139 driver. -ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP

Re: need to constantly force-reload networking

ed for a > month or two under FreeBSD, and then under debian for a couple of weeks > without a problem. But now it doesn't :( > > I am not sure, but I think the etherexpress driver in recent kernels (2.2.x) was also affected. Have a look at the mail archive at http://www.scyl

Re: xfs servers

To enable the use of xfs-xtt in X the first FontPath line in /etc/X11/XF86Config should be Section "Files" FontPath "unix/:7101" FontPath... ... -ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --

Re: xfs servers

On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 04:40:59AM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > To enable the use of xfs-xtt in X the first FontPath line in > /etc/X11/XF86Config should be > > Section "Files" > FontPath "unix/:7101" Sorry.

Re: Where does Debian usually install stuff?

I'd link /tmp to /var/tmp and create /var/tmp with /var not mounted, so you also have a /tmp, in case /var isn't mounted. There are so many programs in Debian (all of them going into /usr), so there isn't much in /usr/local, except for kernel-sources (/usr/local/src). -ff --

Re: unzipping tar.bz2 files

he tar version shipping with potato supports this. -ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Open Source <-- -> Online-Petition against Software Patents <- --> http://petition.eurolinux.org <-

Re: Where does Debian usually install stuff?

On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 04:18:37PM -0800, Ethan Benson wrote: > On Sat, Aug 19, 2000 at 03:57:58PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > > > Well, imho it makes no sense splitting of /usr/src. > > Everthing in there is under package control. > > > >

Re: ALSA and SB Live

to update my hole system to woody. But anyway I succeeded, by installing the necessary packages with dpkg. -ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Open Source <-- -> Online-Petition against Software P

xclients through ssh and docking in windowmaker

'm using windowmaker 0.62.1-0.1 ssh 2.2.0p1-1 wterm 6.2.6-10 wmnet 1.05-4 Am I doing something wrong, or is this a windowmaker bug? regards florian -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Open

Re: Mutt's alias file

ebian-user", exim sends it > right back to me, complaining that the local user "debian-user" doesn't exist. > > What am I doing wrong ? You have to source your alias file in .muttrc, too. set alias_file="~/.mutt_aliases" source ~/.mutt_aliases fl

Re: alsa-base

s? Do I need to report it to someone? I'm also using woody, and alsa-base_0.5.0d-1 came with the last apt-get upgrade. Perhaps, an apt-get update helps. -ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Ope

Re: xclients through ssh and docking in windowmaker

On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 10:24:41AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 12:54:05PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > Am I doing something wrong, or is this a windowmaker bug? > > As far as I can tell, it's a windowmaker bug. Fortunately, you can edit the

Re: alsa-base

On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 09:48:28AM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 03:55:40PM +0200, Florian Friesdorf wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 13, 2000 at 09:03:22PM -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: > > > I attempted an apt-get install alsa-base, however this failed. > >

Re: Vim vs Elvis

x highlighting. > > wholly khow. > > newest vim fan, here. hiya! seeya, elvis -- wow. And one more :-) Even my procmailrc is colorized. Just found 2 interesting pages vim and latex http://www.math.rochester.edu/u/cmlr/vim/ vim page http://members.home.com/tsurban/vim/inde

Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake

d crashing your glx subsystem I diverted (man dpkg-divert) this lib to /usr/X11R6/lib/modules/extensions/libglx.a.distrib I hope this helps. Next time, perhaps, try debian-x. regard ff -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --

Re: NVidia kernel module won't compile

ur previous mail and this one, you aren't that far away from it ;-) regards florian -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Open Source <-- -> Online-Petition against Software Patents <- -->

Re: Quake 3 still not running

Fatal server error: > > Caught signal 11. Server aborting > > It happens whenever I start Quake. I now have a generic TNT2 Vanta card > installed. Well, afaik the problem is not in this part of the log (no Errors or Warnings). Full Server.log would be helpful f

Re: question about my 2.4 test10 kernel

See package documentation for more information. florian -- Florian Friesdorf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP key available on public key servers --> Save the future of Open Source <-- -> Online-Petition against Software Patents <- --> http://petition.eurolinux.org <--- pgp9NVnziZT78.pgp Description: PGP signature

file too large to delete

Hi, I have done something really stupid. I wanted to test the 'record avi' funtion of xawtv and when I realized that it was still recording, there was a 6GB file. xawtv crashed and ls and rm are also crashing and the file is still there. help appreciated regards florian --

Re: file too large to delete

On Wed, Nov 08, 2000 at 08:26:48PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: > on Thu, Nov 09, 2000 at 04:08:02AM +0100, Florian Friesdorf ([EMAIL > PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I have done something really stupid. > > I wanted to test the 'record avi&#x