Re: question about my 2.4 test10 kernel

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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 -- 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' funtion of xawtv and when I realized

Re: Quake 3 still not running

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Re: NVidia kernel module won't compile

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 - -- http://petition.eurolinux.org --- pgpuAllbztktL.pgp Description: PGP

Re: XFree 4.0.1 and Quake

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 -- Save the future of Open Source -- - Online-Petition

Re: Vim vs 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 pagehttp://members.home.com/tsurban/vim/index.html -ff -- Florian Friesdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on public key

Re: alsa-base

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 Open Source -- - Online-Petition

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 Application path

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. Received the message stating

xclients through ssh and docking in windowmaker

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 Source -- - Online-Petition against Software Patents - -- http

Re: Mutt's alias file

-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 florian -- Florian Friesdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP

Re: Filesystem layout and hi everybody

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 Friesdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on public key servers -- Save the future of Open Source

Re: A series of newbieite questions

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. -ff -- Florian Friesdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on public key servers -- Save the future of Open Source

Re: Debian vs. Red Hat

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-Petition against Software Patents - -- http

Re: Source directory

. 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-sources while keeping the correct header files) -ff -- Florian Friesdorf [EMAIL

Re: nVidia geForce + X == error?

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 public key servers

Re: exim headaches

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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on public key servers -- Save the future of Open Source -- - Online-Petition

Re: Loading modules at boot time.

. 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 -- Save the future of Open Source -- - Online

Re: Realtek 8129/8139 support

). (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 Friesdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available

Re: installing Netscape Navigator 4.75

-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 Source -- - Online-Petition against Software Patents

Re: Debian packages..

be sure that your slink package files have been updated so they do not have a reference to stable in the File: section. Fixed versions are propogating right now, and it may take a day. Thanks, Jason Debian Mirroring end debian-mirrors -- Florian Friesdorf [EMAIL

Re: Kernel parameter (hisax) lets kernel hang

. 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 -- - Online-Petition against Software Patents - -- http

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

- 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on public key

Re: Question about kernels and packages

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 Friesdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key

Re: XFree4.0.1 on potato

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 -- - Online-Petition against Software Patents - -- http

Re: trouble with fetchmail via exim

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 Friesdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on public key servers -- Save

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. /boot80MB

Re: ALSA and SB Live

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 Patents - -- http://petition.eurolinux.org --- pgpFX78ai5O5c.pgp Description: PGP

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

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-Petition against Software Patents - -- http://petition.eurolinux.org

Re: Modprobe and modules - is this a problem?

. 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 PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on public key servers -- Save

Re: Recommended File and User sharing between Debian systems?

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 Friesdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on public key servers -- Save the future of Open

Re: Where does Debian usually install stuff?

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 -- Florian Friesdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on public key servers

Re: unzipping tar.bz2 files

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 --- pgpHnQygONEUm.pgp Description: PGP

Re: need to constantly force-reload networking

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 key available on public key servers

Re: need to constantly force-reload networking

, 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.scyld.com/mailman/listinfo/ -ff -- Florian Friesdorf [EMAIL

Re: xfs servers

in /etc/X11/XF86Config should be Section Files FontPath unix/:7101 FontPath... ... -ff -- Florian Friesdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on public key servers -- Save the future of Open Source -- - Online-Petition against Software Patents

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. FontPath unix/:7100 -ff -- Florian

Re: still unable to get kernel source

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 -- - Online-Petition against Software

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.; done I still don't understand what was going on, but with this one it worked fine. (for i

procmail - filtering already received mails

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 against Software Patents - -- http://petition.eurolinux.org --- pgppfPVmeO5Eb.pgp

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: ; procmail $i rm $i; echo done.; done in SomeMaildir/cur

Re: [OFFTOPIC] BIOS Password defeat

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 -- Save the future of Open Source -- - Online-Petition against

Re: Mail configuration and setup

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 Source -- - Online-Petition against Software Patents - -- http://petition.eurolinux.org

Re: DNS conflicts telnet

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 Friesdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on public key servers -- Save the future of Open Source

Re: Setting up IP aliasing, cannot find kernel modules

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 - -- http://petition.eurolinux.org --- pgpBeO7oO6cQy.pgp Description: PGP

Re: xscreensaver

, 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 - -- http://petition.eurolinux.org --- pgpr5YsIQSCBj.pgp Description: PGP

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

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 Friesdorf [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP key available on public key servers -- Save