Kernel 2.4.x BUG !!

2001-03-31 Thread Matthias Mann
Dear Debian Users! I had found a bug that is in kernel-2.4.1 and kernel-2.4.2. I write this to you cause i am a very convinced debian user, in hope you can fix this for others of the debian group, they could have the same nerve-racking trouble like i had with this. It is an error that comes, by co

Re: TO ALL!

2000-10-22 Thread Matthias Mann
it the content that will decide if it is unnecessery or not and not the fact that it is a chain letter? Matthias - Original Message - From: Martin Fluch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matthias Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Sunday, October 22, 2000 11:13 AM Subject: Re: TO ALL!

Re: bash_history

2000-10-22 Thread Matthias Mann
s unset, or if the history >file is unwritable, the history is not saved. After >saving the history, the history file is truncated to >contain no more than HISTFILESIZE lines. If HISTFILESIZE >is not set, no truncation is performed. > ..

TO ALL!

2000-10-22 Thread Matthias Mann
Preface : This is a little story to think about. It could change your mind, cause it´s useful to save life. Author is unknown. This story was translated on saturday october 21´th 2000 by MatMan. I´m very sorry if they are some mistakes into text. I´m a german boy (29 yet, but i hav

Re: /boot

2000-10-22 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi, you will need the files in /boot bevore cylinder 1024, because your BIOS can´t read anything after this border. And the BIOS starts the booting. If you like to install Linux and another OS like M$-Windows on one harddisk, it is recommended to create an own partition for /boot. I have 8 MB for t

Re: bash_history

2000-10-21 Thread Matthias Mann
Yes this is a typo! Do you have any answere of my questions? - Original Message - From: Moritz Schulte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 10:30 PM Subject: Re: bash_history "Matthias Mann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a bug in

bash_history

2000-10-20 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi people! Is there a bug in bash (Debian 2.2.0 potato)? When i go as root into my system the bash don´t save anything to /root/bash_history. Is this a bug or default? If default, how can i configure my bash to save the history? Have a nice day! Matthias

Re: {BIG MISTAKE} - what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Matthias Mann
Hello again dear Peter! I´m so sorry! I exchanged /etc/modules.conf with /etc/modules! Forget my last mail. It has nothing to do with your questions! To /etc/modules.conf i only can write, that it includes some aliases for work with the system. I mean that this aliases will be needed for kernel to

gcc file : specs ; need infos

2000-10-20 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi You! I like to understand the specs file of gcc. In man gcc i had found no information about that. Do you know a HOWTO or another document where i can find an explanation of this file? Thanx, Matthias

Re: what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi Peter! /etc/modules.conf includes all the names of modules, they are installed into your kernel. I´m not shure whether modconf has generated this file. But modconf will write into it by selecting a module to put it into the kernel. The kernel reads this file to see which modules shall be load a

Re: mouse not working in x

2000-10-20 Thread Matthias Mann
Do You have a serial or a PS/2 mouse? Some poeple told me that X mouse driver with gpm is not possible by using a PS/2 mouse. Or be they all mistaken? Matthias - Original Message - From: Walter Tautz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matthias Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PRO

Re: mouse not working in x

2000-10-19 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi! Do you have installed gpm, the consolse mouse driver? Then remove gpm or kill it with gpm -k before starting X cause the X mouse driver can´t work if gpm is running. Matthias - Original Message - From: Bob Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, October 19, 2000 12:51 AM Sub

dpkg-architecture

2000-10-18 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi, i patched my gcc with pgcc for pentium processors. Now my build architecture is i586. To compile some debian packages with dpkg-buildpackage -B i made changes for correct working with dpkg. First i changed the archtable file in dpkg sourcedir and after recompiling i changed %archtable in /usr/b

Re: Help setting up X!

2000-10-16 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi John! For some days i had the same problem. I made much changes of fontpackages and found by doing this the minimal required packages for the fonts that X will work : xfonts-75dpi (or 100dpi) , xfonts-base , xfonts-pex. If you have all these packages installed i can do no more for you. You shou

Re: which software for professional Mailling? OT: Actual help

2000-10-16 Thread Matthias Mann
C.Falconer wrote: Note - "very happy" not just satisfied. The client has to think "Wimmern! - Diese Person ist erstaunlich" Thank you very much for this suggestion. I will save it in my haed and for security on my harddisk.

SPAM - [ERROR!!!] (TO ALL NEWSGROUP MEMBERS)

2000-10-14 Thread Matthias Mann
that YOU ALL have right and it is the best for me and all others if i use other and more honourable ways to show others what i like to sell. THANX TO ALL OF YOU! And please have a lucky LIFE! I think, i love You all! Matthias Mann; alias MatMan or Matman!

Re: Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Matthias Mann
Ok! You have convinced me! Thank YOU very much! - Original Message - From: Jan Erik Moström <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matthias Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 7:47 PM Subject: Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA > On lö

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Matthias Mann
- Original Message - From: Henrique M Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matthias Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, October 14, 2000 9:34 AM Subject: Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA Huui! This discussion becomes a content that now has n

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Matthias Mann
Matthias Mann writes: > In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters > with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for > emails. John Hasler: > What has "legal" got to do with it? Do you labor under the delusion that >

Re: which software for professional Mailling? BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA

2000-10-14 Thread Matthias Mann
I´m very sorry! In germany, my home country, it is entirely legal to send others letters with advertising material into their letterboxes. The same is valid for emails. Have a nice day! - Original Message - From: C. Falconer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Matthias Mann <[EMAIL PROTE

which software for professional Mailling?

2000-10-13 Thread Matthias Mann
HiYou!   I like to work with big archives of mailadresses and need a program that is able to send SPAM and organize to let it be, that people they don´t like my SPAMS will get never a Mail of me again. And i could need a tool that can scan the web for mailadresses. Is there somthing like that

isdnctrl dialmode auto

2000-10-13 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi People! Do you know what i have to do to set the time for automatic hangup? Now my isdnutils let me wait 45 seconds after a Datatransfer. Cause my ISP count every second i like to set this time down to 1 second. But where? have a nice night!

ISDN + Netscape

2000-10-13 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi you!   I have no problem to get a connection to my ISP. Datatransfer is working too. But i miss the file /etc/resolv.conf that i need, how i think, for a working netscape. Can you send my a copy of your resolv.conf so i have an example? Otherwise i don´t know how i should write my resolv.

Access to WWW via ISDN and Netscape Navigator (beginner)

2000-10-12 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi linuxuser! I had installed Debian 2.2r0 potato. First the basesystem and all packages of the directorys Imp and Std. Next i installed the X Window system Netscape and isdnutils. I think the ISDN-card is working cause i had a connection of one second by typing isdnctrl dial ippp0 on consiole. Is

NFS new-comer question

2000-10-12 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi people! Do i need anything for NFS at my single computer? I don´t plan to mount any filesystem over an internetconnection or somthing like this. Whilst booting i get this messages from the bootscript : Starting NFS common utilitis : statd lockd .. . Not starting NFS kernel kernel daemo

Re: Package manager

2000-10-12 Thread Matthias Mann
> Hi all. > > I'm new to the lists and to Debian too. > I had installed Debian 2.2. The install process work fine but I don't > know how to install, remove o query the packages of the distribution. I > had used Redhat with rpm. Where can I find information about package > manager on debian? > > Tha

Firewall (Linux new-comer)

2000-10-12 Thread Matthias Mann
Hi people! I´m sitting on a single computer. Yesterday i´ve read the firewall-HOWTO and was very confused cause there are examples for a network system. Is there any possibility to build a firewall or other usefull security systems for my machine? I like to use netscape navigator to have fun and f