Re: [expert] Postfix filing up my /VAR!!!
This is a problem with the logrotate scripts. they loop somewhere and create multiple /var/log/mail/fil.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz.gz style files. - Original Message - From: "Bob Puff@NLE" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 11:53 AM Subject: [expert] Postfix filing up my /VAR!!! > Hello, > > I just had a machine go down on me yesterday. Kept giving me "no free space on drive" errors. It turned out that my /VAR partition was messed up, and after forcing a check, indeed it was full. > > I found a directory called MAIL inside /VAR/LOG that had THOUSANDS of files in it, taking up literally hundreds of megabytes. They appeared to be all log files from Postfix, my SMTP program. > > My question #1: Why are these here, when I have my mail log as: /VAR/LOG/MAIL.LOG? That has been working fine. Why is there a second location that seems to be keeping log files forever? > > Question #2: I downloaded Tom's linux floppy, and created it. I booted this on my system, and tried using the fsck, as well as exfsck (not sure of exact syntax). Both programs reported that any drive I checked was not a ext2 file system (which they are), and would not go any further. I did: > > fsck /dev/hda7 > > Why didn't this work? I ended up forcing my Mandrake 7.1 to do a check during bootup by changing the year to 2001 and rebooting. It checked, fixed errors, and all was well. I had errors on two out of four partitions. I tried the fsck from Tom's disk on all four partitions, and it would not work. > > What did I do wrong? > > And more importantly, how do I turn off Postfix's creating additional log files in /var/log/mail/??? > > Bob > > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
Re: Re [expert] To the Powers That Be.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Good move. So I was pissed when I wrote my little rant, have you ever > thrown your keyboard and mouse across the room? Yes, I have a bad > attitude towards lame geeky user interfaces, but that's just me. and a bad attitude toward any other living human being? [EMAIL PROTECTED] also said: > I think they need to hear loud and clear that when they put out > releases or call things "stable" that arn't, unstable for who? you? - well, gee. it works fine of 15 installations in my office. hmm what could be wrong here, we have 1 jerk, who other than giving everyone the shits, has contibuted nothing (actually 2, if we count good old Ron S. (you know who you are)) to the process, and get pissed when it don't work for them. childish!!! > they will cause people > great frustration, including damage to anything close by :) if you cannot control your temper, and don't like what is going on with Mdk, go to http://linuxfromscratch.org and do it yourself. When you then have a problem, you can hit yourself over the head with a keyboard as much as you like, or even set up a mailing list and flame yourself, for all I care. all you are doing by flying off the handle here, is alienating yourself from the people who *can* help you. If you cannot act with a little bit of civility, towards people that would help, you *deserve* to be put in a killfile, which I personally am loath to do. > I don't want to cause this list to be censored, please don't even > consider it. Just take the responsibility of setting your filtering on > your mailer, or even better, write a nasty message to your mailer > developer and ask why they don't have a way to simply "right click" on You sure are the one who manages to write nasty messages to this list asking why you are to stupid to learn a few simple editor commands. go ahead, Throw your keyboard again... > a message and say "block this thread of messages" so you don't have to > miss out on all my messages, sometimes I help people (really I do). All I suggested, was to stop the damn vi/emacs/pico thread, which was, incidentally OFF TOPIC, after you had made your point, and then found a fix. A way to do so, would be to do like they do on several lists I am on. The question gets asked. an answer is provided. No extraneous crap that is irrelevant. such as this email for example. or all of the followups that said me too on the vi from hell thread. A question, an answer, no bullshit of topic, aol-esque me too crap. therefore, a moderated list, is not the same as a censored list. All the moderator does, is to keep the list on topic, which in this case, is "Mandrake help - for experts to discuss issues they may have" not for newbies to say "me too." everyone gets the help they need. no one gets hostile, and the people that are capable of helping, stick around. (this is the key issue I think) I try to help when I have time, but I am so fed up with reading the bullshit, (I don't want to have to edit my procmailrc everytime a new bullshit thread erupts), that I may just leave the list altogether and ignore it. my 2c. again.. flames > /dev/null Allen -- +++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++
Re: [expert] To the Powers That Be.
> It will imposed censorship on the > list which most of us probably don't like, as we are interested in > freedoms. And also, how fast is it to sign up for another acct on a > free > e-mail? That takes a matter of minutes, where tracking down the cause > of > the flames may take days of messages to find out. > -- If the list was moderated, then only *RELEVANT* emails would get through to the list, and all this *CRAP* we have to put up with on a daily basis will no longer cause knowledgeable people to just not read the list. it has nothing to do with losing an account, as all emails, whoever they come from will have to be checked prior to being allowed onto the list. This is not new, or even censorship. It is a reaction to all the juvenile, immature postings we get where small minded individuals, with no brains feel they need to spout off whenever they don't like the color of the installation routines, and prove their lack of brains. I say moderate. this way only one person needs to put up with the crap. -- +++++++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++
Re: [expert] How do I get cron to shutup?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > On Tue, Aug 08, 2000 at 11:50:25AM -0600, Vincent Danen wrote: > > I've got the following in my /etc/crontab file: > > > > */5 * * * * vdanen /usr/local/src/terra-2.3.0/ircd 1>/dev/null 2>1 > > The syntax to redirect the standard error stream to standard output is > > something 2>&1 *OR* insert the line MAILTO="" just above the line you want silent. -- +++++++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++
Re: [expert] backup over ftp
rsync over ssh allows just this. - Original Message - From: "Gavin Clark" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, August 07, 2000 5:05 PM Subject: [expert] backup over ftp > > hi, > I need to backup over ftp. Basically I need something that is the opposite > of mirroring software. > > It has to be client driven. > > What's out there? > > Thanks, > Gavin >
Re: [expert] Easy way to switch Mandrake X subsystems
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Is there any simple easy way to allow switching of the X server in > Mandrake 7.1 from 3.3.6 to 4.0 and back again? if you have working XF86Config files for both ( /etc/X11/XF86Config and /etc/X11/XF86Config-4) then just change the symlink that is /etc/X11/X to point to /usr/X11R6/bin/XFree86 for XF4.0 or /usr/X11R6/bin/XF86_VGA16 (select your prefered X Server here) for XF 3.3 -- +++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LNC - Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++
Re: [expert] XFree 4.0 wheel mouse issue
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Even with ZAxisMapping 4 5 in the XF86Config file, the wheel is > ignored. try Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5" then, check permissions on the /tmp/imwheel.pid file delete it if necessary, the restart X -- +++++++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LNC - Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++
Re: [expert] Freedoms Past
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Better yet, quit complaining and start your own distribution. You can > even base it off of Mandrake. Then you can patch it and make it > "yours" since your way is obviously better than the Mandrake > designers. YEAH, and we can remove the need to log in at all, - just open a root session automatically, and give the end user the power to screw himself and shoot himself in the foot anytime he wants, and we can call this distribution Dick head Linux, or maybe, dare I say it Windows I Agree 100% with Matthew here, - get a life, and fix it if you don't like it. I have used Slackware, Redhat, Suse, debian and Mandrake, been subscribed to all of their lists, and have found the people that frequent the Mandrake lists to be the biggest babies (The people that complain about Mandrake, you know who you are). Get a life, quit complaining. You don't like it? go use Suse, Slack or whatever... I DON'T CARE just piss off. more people to put in my kill file -- +++++++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LNC - Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++
Re: [expert] So,anybody fixed mc in 7.1?
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Re: [expert] Binding sound to $DISPLAY
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > I posted this about a week ago, the only response I got was to try > Gnome. Absolutely not an option, Gnome being the resource hog of hogs, > I don't even use it on the server with 256Mb. The client runs > BlackBox, it only has 40Mb Ram. No, I read the post, it said try esd (e sound daemon) - it will do what you want with some tweaking esd != gnome gnome != esd -- +++++++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LNC - Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++
Re: [expert] Wooow
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > when you click on the menubar (Very helpful for trying to type in > something you see on a web page as an image or something equally > un-cut-and-paste. ? un cut and paste? - are you using a 2 button mouse? try outlining what you want to copy, then go to the receiving window (where you want to paste) and click the middle button of a 3 button mouse, or click both left and right buttons of 2 button mouse. The following was cut n pasted from netscrape: from slashdot and (my personal favorite) support for encrypting your swap space. Theo and the gang have also expanded the ports and packages collections considerably, so get 'em while they're hot!" (More.) -- +++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LNC - Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++
Re: [expert] Helix-update in 7.1
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > Don't see a point why the Helixupdate should be included in > distribution. maybe not everyone has a T1 to the net? some people (in australia for example) pay for every MB they receive, *and* have to download over 33.6K modems. That in itself is a good enough reason to include it. -- +++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LNC - Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++
Re: [expert] $5.50 for MDK 7.1 2-CD set (GPL version)
Was that $5.50 Plus Media Plus shipping? or $5.50 all up? -- +++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LNC - Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++
Re: [expert] rsync help
The way to not ask for a password, is to cat from the client machine the ~/.ssh/identity.pub to the ~/.ssh/authorized_users file on the server, it will no longer ask for a password when ssh ing from the client to the server as that user. The following command will set this up for you. ssh -l remoteusername remote.host.com 'cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys' <~/.ssh/identity.pub -- +++++++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LNC - Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++
Re: [expert] Helix Gnome
just run the go-gnome script, it downloads and installs everything for you. works like a dream. very simple [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > is it relatively easy to install? I am using MDK 7 and was wondering > does it just start now from your log on screen instead of the old > gnome? I like the looks of it and have to admit the current version > is a little buggy so I look forward to using 1.2 -- +++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LNC - Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++
Re: [expert] Helix Gnome
I am using helix here, and it is great - Very smooth, clean and just all round brilliant. I couldn't go back to kde if I wanted to - The new Gnome is just so-unclunky. Allen -- +++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LNC - Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++
Re: [expert] SHIT
> I think MDK is shit > Netscape craches all time and there hmmmph - so does mine, my netscape caches all of the time too, on mandrake, and redhat :) > are no any other good browser that works better! > it caches as good on either system. Allen -- +++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LNC - Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++
Re: [expert] Dual AMD K6's?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > 1) Does anyone know of a motherboard which will accommodate dual AMD > K6 processors? IIRC, only intel CPU's are supported in a dual configuration. the best place to look would be /usr/src/linux/Documentation/smp.txt??? -- +++ Allen Bolderoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> LNC - Linux, help and commentary http://linux.netnerve.com CTPC - Caffeine - get it here: http://www.coffee-tea-pots-cups.com/ +++ GPG fingerprint = CBB0 8626 702C 3D01 B5AD A54A DC2C 93B7 3E4B 6472 +++
Re: [expert] dup emails...(bloody annoying)
use this procmail recipe, and it will remove the duplicates for you # # # # # Prevent Duplicate Messages # # # # # :0 Wh: msgid.lock | formail -D 8192 $HOME/Mail/msgid.cache
