Until I get out-bound messages going through nmh
properly, I have found a possible stop-gap measure to use.
The old mail application or mailx if one has
heirloom-mail does work but I have a question about piping a
message to it.
It looks from documentation that mail can
Dan Ritter writes:
mail -t needs to be followed by an address, not a message body.
Makes sense. Thanks.
If you want to send a full message which has all needed headers,
trust the sendmail command which is shipped by anything which
can supply the MTA package role.
exim, sendmail,
To all who have helped me so far, a huge thank you! I
soon realized that the subject line of this message is incorrect
since pop3 covers only the delivery task and I got that working
a couple of weeks or so ago. The indescribably joyful experience
of being able to successfully authenticate
Bob Bernstein writes:
At some point in this process try using your POP credentials (username
martin, password martin's pop password) when trying to send. Y'know, when
suddenlink told you that 'martin' had been already taken as a username for
smtp, of course it had, by YOU, for your POP
Curt writes:
You don't seem to be following the instructions here:
After a good night's sleep, I notice that too. I fixed
it and now there are only moving parts, one of which is
broken instead of 1.:-)
Unfortunately, authentication is loaded with these
series-connected
David Wright writes:
Supported authentication methods:
PLAIN LOGIN
I see no encryption here. I think this is why it is telling you that
it cannot use a secure authentication method. I wrote You might
want to check out port 587 but I think you'll be disappointed
just this
Paul E Condon writes:
I use msmtp, not exim, even though exim comes already installed by
Debian. Msmtp has its own tiny config file which can be located at
~/.msmtprc You can put there whatever you need to satisfy you ISP and
have no fear of exim mucking about with it. Of course, don't remove
Miles Fidelman writes:
ifconfig -a
is always a good one
Yes but depending on how your path is set it may not simply work.
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The fun never ends. I installed msmtp and as near as I can tell
it works as advertised. My SMTP smarthost at
Suddenlink.net presents the following banner which nicely
explains what one needs to do to get real work done. I've had a
little trouble getting msmtp to fit what is required. The
Steve McIntyre writes:
mar...@server1.shellworld.net
622 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 551 not upgraded.
Need to get 222 MB of archives.
After this operation, 48.4 MB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]?
Needless to say, I typed n and
Joel Roth writes:
Hi Martin,
Pulse audio requires D-Bus, and D-Bus is the underlying RPC
mechanism of a large and controversial software stack
developed to support desktop applications.
Thank you for this good and quick explanation.
Apparently pulseaudio is unable to get D-Bus services,
What replaces the standard sound device? I have written
some experimental programs that play and record sound using
/dev/dsp and they work. Obviously, there is a lot of bad design
in the world that works and I hear the discussion that says that
/dev/dsp is out-dated so what is considered
Good answers. Thanks.
Martin McCormick
Nicolas George writes:
In short: ALSA.
In long: the kernel devices for ALSA are present in /dev/snd/, but
applications are not supposed to access them directly, they are supposed
to
solely rely on the API exposed by the ALSA library,
That should have been a subject of
wheezy to jessie. I goofed
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It is time to finish the upgrade from squeeze to jessie,
I think. It looks like the squeeze to wheezy upgrade worked but
I see a problem when trying to upgrade from wheezy to jessie.
Here are the active lines in sources.list: When all
entries pointed to wheezy, I did the upgrade
The audio FAQ on the debian wiki does say that sometimes
support for certain sound cards is removed from new kernels due
to licensing issues. It is always possible that this is what
happened but since there is a module right there in the only 3.x
kernal on this system, I think that it is
Nicolas George writes:
Le septidi 27 messidor, an CCXXIII, Lisi Reisz a e'crit :
How are you getting these useful error meassages if sound isn't
working? Did
oyu say atht you are sshing in from a working box?
Usually, error messages are to be read on the screen. Martin wrote he ran
Javier Barroso writes:
There is a page on the wiki [1] where give you details about cs4236
devices on Debian (and why they were excluded from Distribution. I'm
not sure if cs4236B is included. I hope it work too,
I looked there and didn't see any documentation stating
that the 423X
I'm the one who has been asking questions about getting an
old Dell Dimension mother board with an on-board CS4236 sound
card to work again after upgrading to wheezy.
For years, I have had pulseaudio and alsa on this system
and have also seen what I will describe as weirdness
Paul E Condon writes:
I use msmtp, not exim, even though exim comes already installed by
Debian. Msmtp has its own tiny config file which can be located at
~/.msmtprc You can put there whatever you need to satisfy you ISP and
have no fear of exim mucking about with it. Of course, don't remove
David Wright writes:
A number of very good suggestions
The other thing you could try is a handcrafted email, which takes
about 5 minutes, by typing the following into a bash prompt:
$ echo -e -n '\0marti...@suddenlink.net\0SECRET' | base64
aBase64stringIsEmitted=
$ openssl
The system in question is a Dell Dimension 600-MHZ
Pentium from way back in 2000. The BIOS date is October 10 of
1999. The sound chip set is a CS4236 on the mother board and
it's always been touchy about working. You can count on the
sound dying after any significant upgrade but once you
Dan Ritter writes:
A cheap USB audio device is probably a good bet. For example,
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812186035cm_re=usb_audio-_-12-186-035-_-Product
is an $8 USB device that I can verify works with Debian and Mac
OS X.
That is a very good suggestion. I
David Wright writes:
I don't see what the issue is. People with different usernames
send mail from this system.
Correct. After looking at what I posted, it is confusing. Let's
try again.
Do you mean /etc/mailname? What's actually in there?
wb5agz.swbell.net
That should never show up on the
Bob Bernstein writes:
what do you put in exim's config as the name of your smarthost?
dc_smarthost='smtp.suddenlink.net::587'
I have figured out the first thing that is wrong but am
not sure how to fix it. When registering a user ID on
Suddenlink's email gateway, I had to pick a
The job now is to get the out-bound authentication to
work to the smtp server. One should use dpkg-configure
exim4-config to set exim to use a smarthost for out-bound
messages and rely on fetchmail for the incoming mail. Most of
this is relatively easy and straight-forward except for one
Bob Bernstein writes:
Is there a special reason you do not post your .fetchmailrc file?
Yes. This is called a senior moment. It's when you forget to
include all the relevant information for which I apologize.
Here is the slightly obfuscated .fetchmailrc file. The
only obscured part is
Lisi Reisz writes:
As someone else has pointed out, it looks as though your username is
wrong.
Most POP3 mailhosts require the full email address, with the @domain bit.
Lisi
This one is no exception. Thank you!! I don't know how many
times I have read and re-read the lines in that
I am trying to get a debian squeeze system to pull mail
from my cable provider's pop3 server. It appears they are not
doing anything really out of the ordinary but I obviously have
something set wrong.
Here is a short snippet from their instructions for
using pop:
Incoming
bri...@aracnet.com writes:
have your tried swapping out ethernet cables ?
Also, have you tried another computer on the same switch
port to see if it has trouble?
Have there been any changes made to your network
infrastructure especially to switches your system is connected
to?
Stuart Longland writes:
I've done this before with numerous distributions in the past.
Basically you set up fetchmail to do the mail collection, and I think by
default it tries to use the local delivery agents to deliver mail to
local users. So you set it up as a daemon to collect mail for
This system runs debian squeeze for now and I want to
make it use our internet provider's POP3 mail server and send
out-bound mail through the provider's smtp server.
In the past, I have used similar systems connected to
the internet so I simply configured exim4 accordingly and
I am more used to sendmail under FreeBSD and I suddenly
lost my FreeBSD system on which I receive mail from everywhere
so I need to quickly make a wheezy system stop rejecting all
incoming non-local messages.
The exim4 installation on the system in question is the
out-of-the-box
Joe writes:
much good information not quoted but greatly appreciated
etc. and try to telnet in from outside, see what message you get.
2dc martin tmp $telnet debsystem.it.okstate.edu 25
Trying 169.254.5.10...
telnet: connect to address 169.254.5.10: Connection refused
telnet: Unable to
Joe writes:
original state. Either way, check /etc/exim4/update-exim4.conf.conf,
which gets updated by dpkg-reconfigure. The file contains instructions
as to how to make changes.
This has gotten me started on the right direction plus,
of course, man update-exim4.conf.
The
Joe writes:
You're in the wrong place.
First, exim4 can use either one large main configuration file, or it can
use many files for individual configuration options, and you were asked
to decide which in the original configuration questionnaire. In this
case, it doesn't matter which you
T.J. Duchene writes:
Martin,
I'm sorry you had problems with my suggestion. Most often, these
problems have to be handled by trial and error. I'm afraid I can only
offer advice based on my own experience and the fact you mentioned you
were using Pulseaudio. I assumed you had it already
Chris Bannister writes:
I reckon the guys on the 'linux-audio-user'
(http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user) mailing list
would be the ideal place for help with this.
Probably so. I've exhausted all the obvious solutions
now.
Thank you.
Martin
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T.J. Duchene writes:
Pulseaudio has had a long history of being poorly handling certain audio
chipset drivers, I'm afraid. You may be able to solve your problem by
adjusting the the driver parameters in the file: /etc/pulse/default.pa.
The more I dig in to this, the less I know. Back
Marko Randjelovic writes:
Did you try with another kernel?
Well, indirectly. As I mentioned, the system has always
exhibited this behavior slightly for several years through a
number of kernels. The biggest change, though, was when I
changed out the conventional 10 GB hard drive for a
T.J. Duchene writes:
Good morning, Martin!
Before I can make suggestions, I need to know if you are using a daemon
such as Jack or PulseAudio or if you are using ALSA directly.
Thanks,
I am using pulseaudio and alsa. Normally, if I am listening to
something it is through mplayer but
This is an older Dell system whose on-board sound chip
is a CS4237 and it has worked well until I replaced the boot
drive with a flash drive. This makes the system faster but audio
now has a problem that I would sure like to correct as it is
annoying to say the least.
I began
If one searches for debian+multiple+sound+cards, there
is a wilderness of somewhat confusing discussions and examples
as to how to configure asound.conf to insure that each card
comes up in the same order. I have two older Dells, each with
the stock CS423X sound chip on the mother board
Raffaele Morelli writes:
drop a custom module config in /etc/modprobe.d/
eg. /etc/modprobe.d/alsa.conf
and use options/index parameters
That worked like a charm as far as I can tell. Thanks to
both posters. I actually used the wrong module name for Card 1
and what happened was that
Stefan Monnier writes:
One last step may be necessary : update the UUIDs in /etc/fstab and
/boot/grub/grub.cfg, as you created new volumes with new UUIDs instead
of cloning them. Or alternatively, change the UUIDs on the new disk with
tune2fs, mkswap... to match the ones on the old disk.
I am the one who posted stating that I can't seem to make a
bootable new hard drive for my Linux Squeeze system. It's been
quoted, It ain't what you don't know that will hurt you, but
what you know that just ain't so. I think I am in that
territory now. What I have been doing was to format the new
AW writes:
1. As far as I know, it's not possible to simply copy a working /dev tree.
These are special files which are generated with the mknod utility.
2. Booting a computer is fairly complex. Everything needs to be at a
specific
location on the drive, needs to occupy the appropriate
Bob Weber writes:
I use sysrescuecd (http://www.sysresccd.org/) to make a new drive
bootable.
There are two ways to get a bootable disk with sysrescuecd.
One way is to use a special boot mode where sysrescue starts its own
kernel to a
system on the hard disk. Once booted you can just
Zenaan Harkness writes:
Martin, it looks like you'll have to recompile your kernel first sorry.
I was kind of thinking that. Actually, I think I have a
solution which I hadn't thought of at the time. I have FreeBSD
running in a virtual machine on a Mac. That will be native ufs
and I
Is it possible to mount the FreeBSD USB iso image on a
debian system? I need to edit one of the configuration files and
the nearest USB port is on a Debian system. The hope is to add a
line of text to a file, transfer the image to a USB drive and
boot the FreeBSD system from the memory
It turns out that the reason I never thought of using mkfs to
build a working boot sector is that mkfs doesn't do that. Grub,
however, does but I am still a bit confused as to how to get it
working. I mounted the new drive on /mnt
#mount /dev/sdf1 /mnt
It's all there.
#chroot /mnt
/ is now the top
Tom H writes:
Are you mounting /mnt/{dev,proc,sys} before chrooting?
No. I did try the mount command after chrooting which successfully ran, but
didn't fix the missing /dev. I bet this is the crux of the
problem, however. Mount just mounts everything in /etc/fstab. I
don't remember if dev is
I thought I had a pretty good idea how to do this but I
obviously am missing something.
I am replacing a nearly 20-year-old 10 GB conventional
hard drive with a slightly-larger flash drive for / on a
Debian-squeeze system; / on flash as it were. I know this can
work as I have an
I knew there would be several suggestions for solutions
to making a new boot disk and I appreciate all of them. I also
appreciate the explanation as to why my previous attempts
at creating a bootable copy failed. It all makes
perfect sense now. I will probably try mkfs first. I have used
I am trying to remove the or ampersand sign from some perl
code I wrote as it is not necessary. I have no trouble finding
all the instances because they consist of an ampersand
immediately followed by a letter so [a-z] describes the case
perfectly.
The replacement pattern should actually be the
Reco writes:
Try it like this:
sed -r 's/([a-z])/\1/g' your_perl_files
It worked like a charm. I forgot about the parentheses and the
\1 to limit the number of matches.
My thanks to everyone who emailed me both on and off-list.
Martin McCormick
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Is there any kind of debian module that will reproduce
PC speaker sounds through the sound card?
The system in question has a working sound card but
there are no apparent pins on the mother board that carry the
timer-counter output to the outside world.
There is a piezo
The domain name system is totally case-insensitive so
FiReFlY.HardknocKs.cOm will lookup as firefly.hardknocks.com. I
have been administering the domain name servers for the
okstate.edu domain since around 1992. We use dynamic DHCP name
registration and the names that folks register are
Jerry Stuckle writes:
I'm not aware of a module - but there are a lot I don't know about,
anyway.
Just one note - it's the transducer which actually generates the sound;
it's being fed with a DC voltage. Connecting headphones to this will only
give you a click in the headphones (and probably
I performed lsmod on the system in question and it does show
that lsmod loads but the second column is headed as used by
and there is a 0 there which sounds like nothing is using it. Is
there something I need to do to get it producing sound over the
audio output jack?
As I previously
Lisi Reisz writes:
For the archives: Note, BST was the correct *result*, *not* the
*solution*. The solution was to chose /Europe/London time which will
correctly switch from GMT to BST and back again as appropriate.
Correct.
Also for the record, when I set my system time to Europe/London/
I was the one who wanted to record a couple of radio
shows from the BBC and not have to remember to juggle chrontab
files for the several weeks when the US is using DST and the
UK isn't. This occurs in the last week of October each autumn
and for around 4 weeks in March.
I have an
Jerry Stuckle writes:
That wouldn't work well. Remember, computers are not the only ones which
use UTC - in fact they are the most imprecise. There are many clocks
around
the world which are synchronized with UTC via radio, i.e. WWV/WWVH in the
United States, CHU in Canada, and other
On a properly-working unix system, the hardware clock is
set to UTC. In theory, every unix system in the world has a
hardware clock that reads the same value at the same time. The
localtime file is a set of rules that adjusts your UTC clock
value to whatever local wall clock time should
I chose the posix time for Europe/London and the seconds
are in exact step with local time seconds.
Martin
Ron Leach writes:
On 21/03/2014 20:21, John Hasler wrote:
Other way around. TAI does *not* include leap-seconds. It is a
continuous stream of numbered seconds with
What is the difference between the 3 versions of various
time zone files? I live in the US-Central time zone and wanted
to set a debian system to London time which means replacing
/etc/localtime to the file that coresponds to London. That's
when I discovered that there are 3 Londons and 3
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