/usr/-only image

2023-09-10 Thread Nils Kattenbeck
, is there ongoing work to eventually support this? Many packages in Fedora for example are already configured to support this using systemd-sysuser, systemd-tmpfiles, and other declarative means stored in /usr/ to create any required files upon boot. Kind regards, Nils

Bug#741029: ITP: redo -- a top-down software build system

2014-03-07 Thread Nils Dagsson Moskopp
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Nils Dagsson Moskopp * Package name: redo Version : 0.0.1 Upstream Author : Nils Dagsson Moskopp * URL : http://news.dieweltistgarnichtso.net/bin/ * License : AGPLv3+ Programming Lang: Bourne shell Description

Bug#558322: ITP: seahaventowers -- seahaven towers solitaire game

2009-11-27 Thread nils
Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: nils * Package name: seahaventowers Version : 1.50 Upstream Author : Bill Spitzak spit...@d2.com * URL : http://seahaven.sourceforge.net/ * License : other Programming Lang: C++ Description : seahaven towers

Bug#143043: ITP: kronolith -- Web Based Calendar Manager

2002-04-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
, allowing others various levels of access to your calendar, importing data from vCal files or attachments, and generating vCal free/busy information. kronolith is licensed under the GPL. Nils -- __ (Muuuhh) Global Village

Re: Observation on syslinux/lilo/grub w/rsp to old Toshiba Laptops

2002-04-12 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Fri, Apr 12, 2002 at 02:00:36PM -0500, Chad Walstrom wrote: > this particular laptop may not work with anything but a zImage kernel > (if it has the same problems as the Tecra series) Those have been resolved by the 2.2 kernel series.

Re: Graphing Debian Lists

2001-09-21 Thread Nils Lohner
cribers. Nicer looking than the ones I did last year... maybe you can take over the concept of the index page from mine and stick your graphs behind it since they're better? They've been available from the lists page for a while and are at: http://lists.debian.org/stats/ Regards, N

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-05-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
if it's impossible to do that without adding bloat I can do without. Instead of creating lots of different kernel-image packages what about a package that can create a kernel-image from source and gives you a list of some more or less generic kernel to choose from? Nils -- *New* *New* *

X-Medium in /var/lib/dpkg/available

2001-04-30 Thread Nils Rennebarth
apt stopped because apt-utils hadn't been installed. Ok, installed that by hand using dpkg -i, fiddling around a bit to get the proper dependencies and finally apt and apt-utils were installed. From then on the X-Medium Problem emerged. Ideas? Nils -- *New* *New* *New*- on shellac re

Re: kernel-{image,headers} package bloat

2001-04-25 Thread Nils Rennebarth
27;t really worth supporting them. People who need to build modules for the debian supplied kernel that are not already there should use the full kernel source and use the .config of their kernel-image to create modules with symbols matching their running kernel. Nils -- *New* *New* *New*- o

Re: Keymaps?

2001-04-23 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Wouter de Vries wrote: > I am sorry, but I do not know... It only works for the latest versions > as far as I know. Well my problem is, the y and z are correct, but the @ is not, and the \ is also at a wrong place... So, I take it this is a bug? :-/ Best wishes

Re: Keymaps?

2001-04-23 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Mon, 23 Apr 2001, Wouter de Vries wrote: > > key? Is this a bug (fileable against what, console-tools?) or am I missing > > something? > > dpkg-reconfigure console-data And if that doesn't help? -- "But since you asked: I am like a hunter of peace, one who chases the elusive mayfly of l

Keymaps?

2001-04-23 Thread Nils Jeppe
am I missing something? Best wishes, Nils -- "But since you asked: I am like a hunter of peace, one who chases the elusive mayfly of love. - Well, something like that." -- Trigun Echelon Bait v2.0: Biological assassination of terrorism in trade center anthrax nuclear plutoniu

Packages file not updated for pool

2000-12-29 Thread Nils Rennebarth
Why is the woody Package file not updated when Files enter the Package pool? Or is there still another Package file that I need to use? The only Pool files that had mad it into the Package file are libc6 and spong. Or did I miss something? Nils -- *New* *New* *New*- on shellac records

Large file support again

2000-09-13 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On http://www.suse.de/~aj/linux_lfs.html I read that for glibc 2.1.3 in order to support large files it needs to be compiled against headers from a 2.4 kernel. As this is currently not the case, glibc 2.1.3 should be rebuilt. Nils -- Quotes from the net, featuring John Lapeyre[L] and

Re: .bashrc (ls --color=auto setting)

2000-08-30 Thread Nils Rennebarth
type. Basically: yes, ls could be improved. It uses hardcoded escape sequences. Nils -- Quotes from the net, featuring John Lapeyre[L] and Christopher F. Miller [M]: M> I'm not sure what the right words are to describe Upside. Last month they M> mentioned the sendmail **web serv

Login temrinated w/signal 13

2000-08-18 Thread Nils Jeppe
help would be appreciated. Best wishes, Nils -- http://nils.jeppe.de/ +49 177 7369365

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-30 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: > DUL is very effective in doing that. it prevents spammers from hiding > their activities from their ISP...which ensures that they will be caught > and their account nuked very promptly. Okay, I see this point, however, I do have a problem with the categ

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Craig Sanders wrote: > yep. the DUL lists dynamic (dialup) IPs, it doesn't list static IPs. > that's why it's called the MAPS Dialup User List. Well then I have to agree, DUL is bad, because it's near impossible to kill dial-in spammers, except to have their accounts revoked

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Wed, 29 Mar 2000, Lawrence Walton wrote: > Nils: you still need a DNS named, static, route-able IP to be your own host. Only for incoming, and with incoming, you decide if you want to use ORBS or not. I'd say most public providers don't use it, for obvious reasons. ORBS only aff

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-29 Thread Nils Jeppe
ou're dialup, you can change isp's as last result; if you're not dialup but dsl, leased line, or whatnot, you can just stop using any smarthost and thus be responsible for your own server and relaying (or lack thereof), since orbs lists individual ip's only. Nils -- "Kif

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-28 Thread Nils Jeppe
ernative. Administrators who can not deal with open relays are incompetent fools. Administrators who do not want to deal with open relays are not one iota better than the worst spammers out there. There, I had to say it, now let's close the discussion, ORBS is a reasonable answer to a real problem.

stuffit expander?

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
Hello, Is there any debian package (or in fact Unix tool at all) that allows uncompression of Mac .sit (stuffit) archives? Nils -- "Kif, if there's one thing I don't need it's your 'I don't think that's wise' attitude." --- Zap Brannigan

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
On 26 Mar 2000, Craig Brozefsky wrote: > It's just an illustration of the problems of attempting to enforce > your preferred policies upon others. I'd call it self-defense, really. -- "Kif, if there's one thing I don't need it's your 'I don't think that's wise' attitude."

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Joseph Carter wrote: > The point exactly.. If RBL or RSS blacklists someone, it's a known > spammer or a site which has refused to act against spammers abusing their > systems. In these instances, the blacklisting happens as a last resort. But you can't keep up with the amo

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
through floods of spam ;-) When I have to chose between using ORBS or sorting out 20-30 spams a day, I'll happily use ORBS. The innocent people getting caught should change to an ISP who has competent admins, or bug their ISP to fix the problem already. Nils -- "Kif, if there

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
On 26 Mar 2000, Jason Henry Parker wrote: > postmaster at a host I co-admin got mail from ORBS a few days before > Christmas of 1999. We were given four weeks to fix our open relay, > plenty of logs and a reasonable amount of help from the ORBS website > on how to fix it. The only difficult part

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Joseph Carter wrote: > > afaik, ORBS sends to [EMAIL PROTECTED] What other right place could there > > be? > > The domain's technical contact. Might be a good idea to do this in addition to [EMAIL PROTECTED], but I fail to see where this is "better" - Most domains have quite

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Sun, 26 Mar 2000, Mark Brown wrote: > ORBS also blacklist sites for other reasons, such as if their probes are > firewalled out. This will, for example, catch sites that automatically > firewall out sites that attempt to relay through them - the site notices > the first check, blocks the rest

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
DUL. If people configured their servers correctly, they'd never get on the list. ;-) Also, ORBS allows for I think 3-5 days warning in advance, which is sufficient to fix a server. Nils -- "Kif, if there's one thing I don't need it's you

Re: RBL report..

2000-03-26 Thread Nils Jeppe
er what they do they > will never be able to communicate a bounce or a unsubscribe request - this > is pretty bad. Hmmm actually, I use Exim, and Exim has a way to configure "exceptions" from RBL blocks. So you could enter an unsubscribe-alias-email-address into these exceptions.

Re: Mozilla

2000-03-10 Thread Nils Jeppe
e update. (IE check > for an install of M13 and then delete any mozilla > profiles with the option of creating a backup copy > first). > > --- Nils Jeppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Delete your preferences of M13, restart mozilla. > > You'll

Re: Mozilla

2000-03-09 Thread Nils Jeppe
Delete your preferences of M13, restart mozilla. You'll get the create profile wizard, and then mozilla works. Yes, it's still alpha software, why? ;-) On Thu, 9 Mar 2000, Kenneth Scharf wrote: > My latest apt-get update ; apt-get upgrade run this > morning grabbed a new version of mozilla.

Re: Secret Holy Code revealed to Seekers of Truth!

2000-03-09 Thread Nils Jeppe
I rest my case. ;-) Best wishes, Nils -- "Fool me seven times, shame on you. Fool me eight or more times, shame on me." -- Amy

Re: magnetic synchronous motor water pumps

2000-03-08 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Wed, 8 Mar 2000, Jules Bean wrote: > Faking mail is not something which should be undertaken trivially. Well call it "fudging", if you will. ;) > Making valid and useful actions impossible is not the way to fight > spam. To fight spam, our spam-masters work quite hard to block open > relays,

Linux Journal Reader's Choice Awards

1999-09-17 Thread Nils Lohner
There's a survey for the Linux Journal Reader's choice awards at http://www.linuxjournal.com Go vote for yur favorite dist and software! Nils.

Help Wanted

1999-05-11 Thread Nils Lohner
This 'job' is basically what you make of it- if you're interested in doing something publicity related, you can just do it. Plus, you get your name on /. every now and then (and not just with a 'First Post!':) Thanks, Nils. -- Nils Lohner

Re: Corel Setup Design Proposal

1999-05-09 Thread Nils-Erik Svangård
> Brandon Mitchell wrote: > >On Fri, 7 May 1999, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote: > > > >> > I think this is a very difficult point, how do you plan to solve this, > c > >hoose > >> > the right Xserver and XF86Config file for the users system ? Or do you > p > >lan > >> > to use

Re: Possible GIMP contest for new Debian logo

1999-01-26 Thread Nils Lohner
was a nice one in the previous set of submissions...) for the Debian one. Nils. In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Nils Lohner writes : > >Actually, one more 'real' point in this discussion... we should really >have 3 logos. One for Debian (the project), one for Debian GNU/L

Re: Screenshots (Re: gdselect alpha 3)

1998-10-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
the problem of netscape 4.07 segfaulting on the second and third screenshot? Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of

Re: Installation problems

1998-06-08 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Mon, Jun 08, 1998 at 11:49:42AM +0200, Michael Meskes wrote: > 2) qftp needs libstd 2.7.2.* but the libstdc is 2.8.* A NMU of me sits in incoming on master. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torva

Re: kernel v2.0.34 has been released

1998-06-04 Thread Nils Rennebarth
testing time on linux-kernel. I'm runnng a pre release for a while now and I'm doing a lot of different things, never encountered a problem. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried

Re: library missing in 2.0.6 (was Re: INSTALLATION REPORT)

1998-06-04 Thread Nils Rennebarth
iner upload of qftp, recompiled with libstd++2.8 and of dpkg where nothing is changed except the paths in the disk and to upload these either until Friday 13:00 (GMT) or Sunday 23:00 (GMT) to incoming on master. Objections, propositions anyone? Btw: Am I right that C++ programs need

Re: problem with dselect and the "dists" hierarchy

1998-06-03 Thread Nils Rennebarth
ing keeping me from recommending debian to newbies. Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely call

Debian's focus

1998-05-09 Thread Nils Lohner
Distribution, and at a time when a major release is on the horizon that should be the primary concern of the organization. Nils Lohner [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Configuration of teTeX broken (send once more due to list problems)

1998-05-07 Thread Nils Rennebarth
I tried to upgrade tetex-0.4 to tetex-0.9 but that failed altogether, because the postinst failed. I corrected the install scripts and sent a patch to the maintainer but did not get any feedback. Nils -- *-* | Quotes

Re: Time to say goodbye...

1998-05-05 Thread Nils Rennebarth
discussions - due to lack of time, I've skipped them entirely. > > > Me too. > > me too. > There goes another me too. The same holds for me Nils -- *-* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W&

Re: Problems with pgp signed mails

1998-04-19 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Sun, Apr 19, 1998 at 03:29:18PM +0200, Martin Schulze wrote: > There's nothing wrong with your mail, my mutt just doesn't recognize > it as pgp signed. I have adjusted my preprocessor. My mutt does, and I didn't have to adjust it's configurati

Warnings when linking with gtk

1998-04-15 Thread Nils Rennebarth
libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x40171000) libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4018c000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 => /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) libXi.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXi.so.6 (0x4022f000) libXext.so.6 => /usr/X11R6/lib/libXext.so.6 (0x40237000) Are there stil

2.0 Hamm Press Release Work

1998-04-12 Thread Nils Lohner
ing issues: - - what are the major features in 2.0? - - what are the major changes/upgrades from 1.3/1.3.1? - - anything else that is significant about 2.0 - - suggestions on what else should be included in the press release Thanks, Nils. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Vers

Re: Intent to package: Nessus

1998-04-12 Thread Nils Lohner
The URL for Nessus is: http://www.mygale.org/~nessus/ It should move soon to: http://kimi.net/nessus/ but I tried that location and got a connection refused. I'll drop the author a line... I've been in contact with him about packaging already. Nils. In message <[EMAIL PROT

Intent to package: Nessus

1998-04-12 Thread Nils Lohner
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I am looking to package Nessus, a "...free, open-sourced and easy-to-use security auditing tool." If anyone has done any work on this, please let me know, otherwise I will start working on it this week. It is intended to go into the 2.1 rele

where is debian-changelog.el?

1998-04-07 Thread Nils Rennebarth
I somehow lost my debian-changelog mode when upgrading to last frozen. Now debian-changelog does not turn up anymore in Contents-i386.gz Where is it or why won't I need it any longer? Nils -- *-* | Quotes from th

Re: Locked out of Root after attemting to change shells

1998-01-08 Thread Nils Rennebarth
ere > > any way to correct this problem short of reinstalling everything > > again? I would greatly appreciate any help you could provide. > > I think you can get su to work, but you may have to tell it what prog

Re: Libc6 2.0.5c has a leak in inet_ntoa

1997-12-10 Thread Nils Rennebarth
en running fine here for two or three weeks. Could that bug be responsible for my rcp.nfsd growing to 30MB after heavy use as an NFS server? I'll give that package a try. Nils -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: 2.6.3ia Charset: noconv iQB1AwUBNI5nGFptA0IhBm0NAQEv9gMAqep2F8SQu29j1

Re: windows nt and linux

1997-12-09 Thread Nils Rennebarth
ould do is to delete (under MSDOS) every file of this partion, except the system files: \boot.ini \autoexec.bat \boot.ini \bootsect.dos \command.com \config.sys \io.sys \msdos.sys \ntdetect.com \ntldr Then you could shrink this partition to a rather small one using fips and install

Re: Anyone using transparent proxying?

1997-06-22 Thread Nils Rennebarth
any -> www => tproxy I run 2.0.30, my rules (to test masquerading a single client machine only) are: ipfwadm -I -a accept -P tcp -S dino.nus.de -D 0.0.0.0/0 80 -r 81 (Transparent proxy broken in pre 2.0.31?) Nils - -- \ / | Nils Renneb

Re: libc5 FAQ

1997-05-29 Thread Nils Rennebarth
s will contain the data-structures and definition that isdnutils is needing now. The utilities are just a bit ahead of the kernel releases, but not because of instability but because of mistakes on part of the kernel source maintainers. This is the exception Andreas a

Re: GOAL: Consistent Keyboard Configuration

1997-05-26 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 26 May 1997, Jim Pick wrote: >I agree 100% with what Ian says. (Let's do it) Count a MeToo from here :-) Nils - -- \ / | Nils Rennebarth --* WINDOWS 42 *-- | Schille

Re: What parts of "TeX" are architecture independent?

1996-09-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
generated at installation time anyway. Much care had been taken by D.E.Knuth to make .dvi .tfm and .pk files platform and especially endianness independent. All other files of the TeX system are simple ASCII textfiles. Nils -- Coming again: Best quotes of the net. Today:

Bug#4309: no manpage in net-acct

1996-08-27 Thread Nils Rennebarth
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Package: net-acct net-acct 0.4-1 does not contain any manpages nor other documentation how to configure the daemon. Nils - -- Coming again: Best quotes of the net. Today: | Nils Rennebarth Kristian Köhntopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| Schiller

Bug#4221: knews silently overwrites configuration file

1996-08-22 Thread Nils Rennebarth
the net. Today: | Nils Rennebarth Kristian Köhntopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| Schillerstr. 61 >>I'd also be interested in the comparison [of Linux] | 37083 Göttingen >>with a cisco router. I assume a factor of about ten.| ++49-551-71626 >

Re: Updated Virtual Package Name List

1996-08-19 Thread Nils Rennebarth
elated packages. Nils -- Coming again: Best quotes of the net. Today: | Nils Rennebarth Kristian Köhntopp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]| Schillerstr. 61 >>I'd also be interested in the comparison [of Linux] | 37083 Göttingen >>with a cisco router. I assume a factor of

Re: mflib creates /var/spool/texmf/fonts/

1996-08-16 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Thu, 11 Jul 1996, Erick Branderhorst wrote: >I was wondering why the mflib postinst script creates directories: ... >Isn't it better to include these in the directory structure of the package? Didn't think of that. Yes. of course. -- Coming again: Best quotes of the net. Today:

Re: source files

1995-11-09 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, Ian Jackson wrote: > Nils, in that case, could you add a `Source: web2c' field to their > control files ? Done. Will make it's way to debian next upload (I always takes three hours to rebuild everything, and that needs to be done because of the context diff

Bug#1795: Paths inconsistent in kernel and pppd

1995-11-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
Package: ppp, source The updated kernel source gets the ppp specific header from /usr/include/linux, e.g: The ppp source package expects these to live in /usr/include/net So pppd can't be recompiled from the source. What is the right location? (And as an aside, the copyright still mentions p

Bug#1793: german.hash has wron magic number

1995-11-02 Thread Nils Rennebarth
Package: igerman, wgerman Running Ispell with the supplied german.hash gives the error message: Illegal format hash table /usr/lib/ispell/german.hash - \ expected magic2 0x9602, got 0x0 Rebuilding german.hash with buildhash succeeds but gives error messages on all words containing umlauts.

papersize

1995-10-22 Thread Nils Rennebarth
ialog author if he is interested but got no response. I'll try that again. Nils

Bug#1391

1995-10-04 Thread Nils Rennebarth
texbin *does* depend on texlib. It is listed in the dependencies. The dependencies however appear to be satisfied by an older revision of texlib, that will not have all required scripts. Is this a bug in dpkg? The poster didn't state the dpkg version. Anyway it is not a texlib bug, so I close this