debian-user mangles mails

1999-12-29 Thread Kai Henningsen
Here's an example: Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-date: Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:42:37 +0100 Received: from uucp by khms.westfalen.de with local-bsmtp (Exim 3.11 #1) id 123LFF-CG-01 (Debian); Wed, 29 Dec 1999 16:42:37 +0100 Received: from

Re: DAMN the reply button

1998-11-14 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (BadlandZ) wrote on 11.11.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: (IMHO, maybe CPU, but BIOS for the sake of discussion). LINUX should read (and not soft read) a serial number out of the BIOS, and not hold it in software to be hacked. BIOS manufacture might be easier to Remember, people

Re: DAMN the reply button

1998-11-14 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (H. Peter Anvin) wrote on 13.11.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Using the Ethernet address makes some amount of sense: although you can set the Ethernet address if you want, it will really screw up your network if you have the same address for more than one host, which is usually

Re: is this the end of debian?

1998-03-20 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Romosan) wrote on 20.03.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: No it certainly is not. We have over 300 developers. The loss of Bruce, though not necessarily a good thing, will not destroy us. ^^^

Re: I am leaving Debian

1998-03-20 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Daniel Mashao) wrote on 20.03.98 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Bruce will sorely be missed by us. His departure will indeed make people re-evaluate whether Debian is stable enough to operate or one should indeed be looking for products controlled in the Red Hat manner. May I point

Re: X is painful

1996-11-18 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Stephen Early) wrote on 15.11.96 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Creating a user interface under X that is as good as NextStep is just a matter of getting every X application author to agree to adhere to the same policy. I wish you luck. Actually, this is a very good description of

Re: Self-Built Kernel Packages

1996-06-02 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Brian C. White) wrote on 30.05.96 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: There is indeed a Debian-ized version of the kernel. The package is called kernel-image. You could also grab the raw source and use kernel-package package to generate your new image package. This is

Re: minicom..

1996-05-16 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Miquel van Smoorenburg) wrote on 15.05.96 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Edit /etc/group and add yourself to the dialout group. I believe the easiest way to do that is to do, as root, # adduser yourself dialout MfG Kai

Re: X Windows

1996-05-16 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kevin M Bealer) wrote on 15.05.96 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: 'pico' is good for a unix newbie. If you are used to the ancestral wordstar command set that many dos editors use (even windoze borrows from it ^V=paste etc.), joe (which is my editor of choice) is good. joe is one

Re: find question (and xargs)

1996-05-15 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Erick Branderhorst) wrote on 13.05.96 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: find / -size +459976c -noleaf -type f -name '*.deb'|\ xargs -n 1 dpkg-split -s {} rm {} I was thinking that {} would be replaced by the filename but that's not the case. Anyone know how to solve this? It's

Re: problems compiling with R0.93

1996-05-14 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Magnus Therning) wrote on 12.05.96 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: When I try to compile my own hello world program I get these error messages: gcc -g -o hello -L/usr/X11R6/lib hello.o -lXaw -lXt -lX11 ld: Output file requires shared library `libc.so.4' gcc: Internal compiler

Re: problem with tar/sendmail/ls

1996-05-02 Thread Kai Henningsen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Evan Welsh) wrote on 30.04.96 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: $ /usr/sbin/sendmail -f evan evan ~/test.msg clnttcp_create: RPC: Program not registered Segmentation fault $ Now this looked just like a problem I had with tar a while back. When tar refused to perform any operation