Re: found in file index error

2001-05-09 Thread Nils Philippsen
, or what I am doing wrong. I am using RPM > 3.0.5, and upgrading RPM is not really an option for the target systems. > > Clues? The error doesn't seem to affect anything - just makes users > nervous. Looks like minor database screwage. Run "rpm --rebuilddb" and

Re: linux/scsi

2001-04-09 Thread Nils Philippsen
e like under Linux/Unix. There you will find code accessing e.g. scanners over the generic SCSI devices and code handling digital imaging equipment (or what ever you may call this stuff). Nils -- Nils Philippsen / +49.711.96437.250 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat GmbH / Hauptstätter

Re: Estimation of Device Driver!!

2001-03-06 Thread Nils Philippsen
ness of a program and its license at all. Those properties of a program are totally orthogonal to each other (try to prove the opposite). Counter examples: enlightenment (which has some BSD or MIT license) -- not really slim XFree86 (MIT) -- not (cough) slim efax (GPL) -- really slim, I haven't h

Re: traceroute problem

2001-01-24 Thread Nils Philippsen
Or your ISP needs to take > their head out of their ass. No. I think it is the traceroute shipped being confused about which source address to use. Check http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=21095 for more information on that. For the record: I think this behaviour qualifies as a

Re: MySQL GPL'd... possible RH inclusion?

2000-07-07 Thread Nils Philippsen
inux > acceptance now do we? I mean, what exactly is a "Postgre" > anyways? Not a sense of one-ness like MySQL provides, thats for > sure! Well, if you take the correct pronounciation of SQL into account ('sequel'), it sounds like 'Postgres-Sequel' which just

Re: About mailers, root and ILOVEYOU-like viruses

2000-06-10 Thread Nils Philippsen
ore reaching the page of the book where he is told how to alias > root and why he should do it. That is why the MTA should not accept > to deliver to root: root has no business reading mail That is your opinion, not everyone else agrees, use the alias and let's settle this thread. >

Re: About mailers, root and ILOVEYOU-like viruses

2000-06-09 Thread Nils Philippsen
suggests you peruse it first;-) Nothing :-) Pine doesn't (want to) know what to do with "active" content. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / +49.711.96437.250 / [EMAIL PROTECTED] Red Hat GmbH / Hauptstätter Straße 58 / D70178 Stuttgart The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its

Re: About mailers, root and ILOVEYOU-like viruses

2000-06-09 Thread Nils Philippsen
interpret it as a script (by using a stupid MUA), then that's _my_ fault, not sendmail's. Some people might want to read mail addressed to root as the root user and with a sensible MUA, that's _no_ problem. I wouldn't want to stand in their way. Nils -- Nils Philipps

Re: Framebuffer

2000-01-19 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, Steve Dixon wrote: > is there a way to turn the console frame buffer off instead of having to > recompile the kernel? Put "vga=normal" or "vga=ext" into /etc/lilo.conf and re-lilo. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg

Re: email and forwarding

2000-01-07 Thread Nils Philippsen
t; --- .forward --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- 8< --- Sendmail notices that the last line is the local address and does a copy but forwards it, too. Nils -- Nils Philippsen / Berliner Straße 39 / D-71229 Leonberg // +49.7152.209647 [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: root password requests in 6.1

1999-12-24 Thread Nils Philippsen
E programs. It's just coincidence that the wrapper is a gtk/gnome program. BTW: If something bugs you about GNOME, why don't you complain? I grepped through my archives of gnome-list and gnome-devel-list and couldn't find a single post by you. Even developers can't read minds

Re: monitor

1999-12-24 Thread Nils Philippsen
ure. You don't specify the exact nature of your problem, e.g. is the screen all black, doesn't the monitor manage to synchronize the video signal, is the picture blurred? Without describing the problem exactly people don't have a chance to solve it. Nils -- Nils Philipps

Re: updated redhat distribution / installation cdroms

1999-10-27 Thread Nils Philippsen
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Alan Cox wrote: > > I have a box with OS/2, NT and Linux 6. I don't imagine RHL 6.1 will get > > anywhere near it; I'm sure it will stumble on OS/2 as well. > > It shouldnt, unless OS/2 and NT use the same partition type. They d

Re: xkbcomp errors; xterm won't run

1999-09-28 Thread Nils Philippsen
his got rid of that problem: xterm no longer gives an error message "no > available ptys", but it still will not run. > > Any ideas on what else I might try? Yeah: Add this line to /etc/fstab (it is needed for Unix98 style ptys): none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620

Re: xkbcomp errors; xterm won't run

1999-09-26 Thread Nils Philippsen
if this were the case (this should be fixed ASAP -- just in case you would have X problems in the future). Nils -- ~~~~~~ Nils Philippsen @college: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Vogelsangstrasse 115 @home: