Re: [gentoo-user] Mailmna python error
On Mon, 26 Jan 2004 16:48:19 +0100 Denny Schierz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > since a few days, i have this errors: > > Jan 26 16:50:06 s15144503 postfix/local[21130]: B4FBAF8: > to=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, relay=local, delay=0, > status=bounced (Command died with status 1: > "/usr/local/mailman/mail/mailman post mailman". Command output: > Traceback (most recent call last): File > "/usr/local/mailman/scripts/post", line 31, in ? import paths > File"/usr/local/mailman/scripts/paths.py", line 55, in ? import > japanese ImportError: Bad magic number in > /usr/local/mailman/pythonlib/japanese/__init__.pyc ) > I had the same problem. I don't know if this is a good fix but here's my fix. There are 4 paths.py files mailman/scripts/paths.py mailman/bin/paths.py mailman/cron/paths.py mailman/tests/paths.py in each file, locate the lines which say import japanese import korean import korean.aliases and comment them out. I don't know if this will break anything else, I don't know python or anything about japanese or korean codecs. It was a guess, but it works fine here. -- Yorkshire Dave. Custom rules for spamassassin, detect listwashing tokens http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MTA with my special features wanted
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 16:49:19 +0100 Thomas Preissler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello folks, > > I am looking for an MTA with the following special features. The > most important thing is that it is easy configurable, i.e. I do not > really want hacking sendmail.cf style. > > 1) No local masquerading > Local mails in the local domain must not be rewritten with my > account ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). The From-address must be untouched. I had > this feature already in the past with sendmail. But in newer > versions the sendmail.cf and the masquerading-feature changed a bit > and so it is not working again. And I am not the crazy guy, who > dreams all night from sendmail.cf. Exim > 2) Per-user SMARTHOST and masquerading configuration > I want to use a per-user SMARTHOST configuration. User tomtom sends > via gmx.de and with masqueraded "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]" to the > outside world. Another user uses another account. Exim again, simple lookup router and a little header rewriting > 3) To-dependent SMARTHOST and masquerading configuration > Is it possible, that the configuration as mentioned in 2) is > To-dependent? So, when I write to mailinglist A, config (SMARTHOST > and From) A is used, another one, when sending to mailinglist B? Exim can do that > Since the time installed linux I am used sendmail. A few weeks ago, > I tested postfix, but - erm - my features can't be practiced. > (Another issue on postfix: postfix can definitely handle mails to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] grr). > > I thought installing qmail, but - my first thought: is it worth the > time? > > So, what are your impressions about existing mta's? Is there a > mta, which fulfills all my needs above? You can do just about anything in exim, and it's far easier to configure than sendmail. -- Yorkshire Dave. Custom rules for spamassassin, detect listwashing tokens http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: Re[2]: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user
On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 23:27:02 +0800 William Kenworthy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Better yet, make it configurable so us top posters can bin the bottom > posters as well! Bottom posting sounds more like do-it-yourself pr0n than mailing list discussion :) > Bottom posters, especially those that that fail to trim there posts > are a real pain in many modern mail readers ... > > :) > The opposite to top posting, the 'correct' way, is inline posting. An inline post will appear to be a bottom post if it only replies to the final paragraph of the original message (after trimming). -- Yorkshire Dave. Custom rules for spamassassin, detect listwashing tokens http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Did anony receive this crap too?
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 22:48:42 -0600 rd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > True, SA is missing it here too! Is there any way or any thing that > we should be doing to feedback this info to the SA project?? > > -rdg SA's focus is on detecting UCE, not virii. If you want a quick fix, try score MICROSOFT_EXECUTABLE 10 in your local.cf or a better way is to hook a virus scanner into your MTA. There are also some helpful rules to detect virus bounces on the wiki at www.exit0.us or you could even write your own rules, they're only regular expressions. -- Yorkshire Dave. Custom rules for spamassassin, detect listwashing tokens http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Did anony receive this crap too?
On Sun, 30 Nov 2003 16:12:55 -0800 (PST) Dennis Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This looks to me to be a variant on the 419 scam. Such messages > should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Presumably they will take > action against the scammers, but with a traffic volume of over 10,000 > messages a month they may be a bit behind and losing ground. > --snip-- > > > > > >Dr. Mtisi Colby > > >ASTRAL SECURITY AND FINANCE BV NL. > > >(Subsidiary Of Delta Lottery NL) > > >e-mail:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >Direct telephone > > >Tel:0031-630-326-755 > > >Fax:0031-641 770 994. I doubt they can do anything about scammers working from NL, I believe the law against such things is very lenient over there. -- Yorkshire Dave. Custom rules for spamassassin, detect listwashing tokens http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Did anony receive this crap too?
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003 20:42:40 +0100 "SN" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting lots of spam and virus mails to the account I use for the > gentoo mailinglist lately. > That sort of crap doesn't make it thru the filters here, but I see signs of it in the maillog, as much in the last 3 or 4 days as in the previous few months. I guess the spammers harvested addresses from the list archives. It had to happen sooner or later, it does with any public accessible mailing list archive. -- Yorkshire Dave. Custom rules for spamassassin, detect listwashing tokens Insert witty .sig here http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] strange responses from Gentoo-User
On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 10:01:01 +0900 Jason Stubbs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 23 November 2003 09:43, Yorkshire Dave wrote: > > On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:52:51 -0500 > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > [ i got 3 of these strange messages today re items i sent to > > > Gentoo-User. NB the comment "misconfigured sender" on the 5th > > > "Received" line. it is possible i forgot to suppress my 'Reply-to' > > > header, if that helps. does anyone have any explanation for this? > > > 'Lincolnbaxter' is unknown to me ] > > > > And again. Same user was bombing posters to the list with CRAP > > requests back in mid september. I guess that sending unsolicited > > email to list posters once just wasn't enough. Mr Baxter needed a > > second go. > > Is that the AWAY guy? Damn! This is the guy who implemented Challenge Response Authentication Protocol on the address he subscribed to the list, thereby sending a confirmation request to everyone who posted to the list. In case anybody else out there needs the hint, any software which automatically sends out any email based upon the addresses in the envelope or headers of incoming email is going to cause a problem sooner or later by sending mail somewhere it shouldn't. This looks like a dodgy implementation of spamassassin, which shouldn't be a problem for anyone except Mr Baxter himself, except for the MTA decided to play spam-the-world with the error message. I feel much better now i got that out of my system :) -- Yorkshire Dave. Custom rules for spamassassin, detect listwashing tokens Save the whales, http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl collect the whole set! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] strange responses from Gentoo-User
On Sat, 22 Nov 2003 18:52:51 -0500 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [ i got 3 of these strange messages today re items i sent to > Gentoo-User. NB the comment "misconfigured sender" on the 5th > "Received" line. it is possible i forgot to suppress my 'Reply-to' > header, if that helps. does anyone have any explanation for this? > 'Lincolnbaxter' is unknown to me ] And again. Same user was bombing posters to the list with CRAP requests back in mid september. I guess that sending unsolicited email to list posters once just wasn't enough. Mr Baxter needed a second go. -- Yorkshire Dave. Custom rules for spamassassin, detect listwashing tokens Save the whales, http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl collect the whole set! -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] local.cf for spamassassin
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003 17:22:07 +0100 Mike Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 07 October 2003 17:02, Jonathan Nichols wrote: > > Hey all, > > Here's a freely available local.cf that you can grab once in a > > while: > > > > http://www.stearns.org/sa-blacklist/sa-blacklist.current > > Excellent, thanks! > > One question though. > Is it possible to get local.cf to include a second config file? I'd > rather not start cat'ing files together everytime I update the > blacklist. SpamAssassin will read all the files in /etc/mail/spamassassin, just put the file in there. > Cheers > > - -- > Mike Williams -- Yorkshire Dave.Save the whales, collect the whole set! Custom anti-listwashing rules for spamassassin. http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl -- -- Yorkshire Dave.Save the whales, collect the whole set! Custom rules for spamassassin. http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Mr. Baxter strikes again?
On Sun, 2003-09-07 at 23:47, Lincoln A. Baxter wrote: > > I am willing to fix ASAP, if I we con figure out what is wrong. > > Lincoln > The best way to fix it would be to uninstall the errant program and rethink your spam protection methods altogether. Challenge/Response is a bad idea, probably the worst idea anyone's come up with to fight spam so far. By requesting confirmations you are shifting the cost of dealing with spam from yourself to others in the same way that spammers shift the cost of their advertising from themselves onto you. By replying with the entire message quoted you are relaying any spam which hits your system to the secondary victim forged into the From header. Your system is as much a public nuisance as any open relay, spammers are already leveraging this technique to evade DNSBL listings and give each message 2 chances of being delivered. As to why the software is malfunctioning for you, I'd guess it's trying to match your whitelist settings to the address in the From header when in this case it needs the (equally trivially forged) Reply-To header. Hope that helps :) -- Yorkshire Dave Custom rule generator for SpamAssassin. http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl top-posters will be tarred and feathered! -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] comfirm???
On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 01:58, Kees Bergwerf wrote: > I posted an answer in this list, I am SURE that is was sent to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] because I only sent 1 message and that I can read in > this list. > But I received an email message from mister Baxter, that I should confirm that > I sent him a message. > I am quite pissed about that!! > Mail from the list should pass his security program or whatever, but please > don't send everybody that writes in this list, that kind of email! > > oh yes, of course this will trigger another response from baxter ;-) > This will always be a problem with challenge-response systems, they're a major nuisance around mailing lists. I recently moved a list onto a new host, it would've been a smooth transition except for about 30 challenge response users which didn't like it and had to be kicked off the list. If it's a reasonably well written system you won't see another response straight away, it will probably wait a few days for the first one to expire before sending another. Challenge-response isn't just a nuisance, it's worse, it's spam. Anyone using C/R is stealing your resources to cure their spam problem in the same way that spammers steal your resources to cure their advertising problem. You found one of my pet hates, I couldn't resist :) -- Yorkshire Dave Custom rule generator for SpamAssassin. http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl top-posters will be tarred and feathered! -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] encryption in Linux-2.6 - loop-aes ebuild missing?
On Fri, 2003-09-05 at 07:37, Klavs Klavsen wrote: > and p.s. am I the only one who would like an encryption that supports > plausable deniability (like rubberhose.org does - but only for 2.2 > kernels)? would be too cool, to be able to give one password, and you > only see a certain set of files - and another then you can see the other > files - but you can't see that a second set of files exists (and if you > fill up the partition, given only one of the passwords, the other will > ofcourse be overwritten - but it will never be noticed that it was ever > there :) You're not the only one, I've been drooling over StegFS for a while now. Someone will port it to a more current kernel one day I'm sure, it's too good to be left in 2.2 obscurity. -- Yorkshire Dave Custom rule generator for SpamAssassin. http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl top-posters will be tarred and feathered! -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Procmail and mail "notification" (SOVLED)
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 14:50, Jason Stubbs wrote: > Hmmm > > I've called the script notify and changed it as follows: > > #!/bin/sh > This is probably a silly question but why not just script it straight into ~/.procmailrc? Oh, and it makes sense to use formail to extract the relevant fields, that's what it's for. FROM=`formail -xFrom:` SUBJ=`formail -xSubject:` DATE=`formail -xDate:` -- Yorkshire Dave Custom rule generator for SpamAssassin. http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl top-posters will be tarred and feathered! -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] basic Gentoo CD doesn't boot
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 16:18, Christopher Fisk wrote: > On Fri, 29 Aug 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > >Nick Van Vlaenderen wrote: > > > "You Might Be A Programmer If ... Before you move into a new house or > >> apartment, the most important thing to you is the type and amount of > >> wiring with which it is equipped." > > > >That's me! :) > > My most important thing about when I buy a house will be if there is high > speed access available. I can run the wireing myself, or even use > wireless, but dialup just isn't an option anymore. In 2001 I moved house 3 miles to get within range of cablemodem. Everyone still thinks I'm nuts, they just don't understand :) -- Yorkshire Dave Custom rule generator for SpamAssassin. http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl top-posters will be tarred and feathered! -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Error in mail.log
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 18:49, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > On 19 Aug 2003 15:35:12 +0100 > Yorkshire Dave <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 11:02, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I have this error in my mail.log. > > > what can i do to get this fixed? > > > > > > Aug 19 11:24:11 rivendell spamd[2180]: Cannot open bayes_path > > > /home/istari/.spamassassin/bayes R/O: > > > > > > The directory exists spamassassin is install also bogofilter > > > > > > TIA > > > Patrick > > > > There's almost enough info there to solve it. > > > > How are you calling spamassassin? Specifically, is it running site-wide > > as your mail user or as user istari? > its called from procmail.rc in the mail users (istari) home folder. > #Spam > :0fw > | spamc > > :0: > * ^X-Spam-Status: Yes > inbox/Spam/. > > > > > > What permissions do you have for the directory in the error message? > drwxr-xr-x for user istari is also the mail user. > That's different to what I have here, but not in the way I was expecting. ~/.spamassassin should be 0700 with its contents 0600 when spamassassin is running per-user. Check the flags you are using on spamd, make sure you haven't got a -u username flag or anything like that. It might also be worth testing spamassassin from the command line in debug mode to see if you get the same error or more information. -- Yorkshire Dave Custom rule generator for SpamAssassin. http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl top-posters will be tarred and feathered! -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] training bogofilter
On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 00:54, blade- wrote: > Hi all, > > Its a OT but maybe someone knows anyway, > > I use spamassassin and have not been able to get bayes filter working > with it, after over 5000 spam messages I think it would be working by > now. So I have deceided to use bogofilter and spamassassin combo, can I > use the spam that spam assassin has collected to train bogofilter, ie. > will the spamassassin header badly effect they way its trained. > > Regards > I'm not familiar with bogofilter but I would've thought it will learn those headers, it wouldn't work very well if it didn't. I keep seeing people struggling to get bayes working on spamassassin, in most cases it's due to which user runs SA versus which user owns the database. You might have trained it as your own user but if you call it from the MTA or globally from /etc/procmailrc it will be running as mail and either unable to read the bayes database in your directory or not even looking for it where you've put it. spamassassin will remove all its own markup from a message, giving you back a clean usable message, I think it's -d. spamassassin -d < infile > outfile I guess there's no harm using bogofilter tho, I've heard it's good, and variety is always good too. -- Yorkshire Dave Custom rule generator for SpamAssassin. http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl top-posters will be tarred and feathered! -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Error in mail.log
On Tue, 2003-08-19 at 11:02, Patrick Marquetecken wrote: > Hi, > > I have this error in my mail.log. > what can i do to get this fixed? > > Aug 19 11:24:11 rivendell spamd[2180]: Cannot open bayes_path > /home/istari/.spamassassin/bayes R/O: > > The directory exists spamassassin is install also bogofilter > > TIA > Patrick There's almost enough info there to solve it. How are you calling spamassassin? Specifically, is it running site-wide as your mail user or as user istari? What permissions do you have for the directory in the error message? -- Yorkshire Dave Custom rule generator for SpamAssassin. http://www.wot.no-ip.com/cgi-bin/detoken.pl top-posters will be tarred and feathered! -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 16:16, Janne Johansson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 17:56, Yorkshire Dave wrote: > > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:16, Janne Johansson wrote: > > > I do not know where you got your ideas form, nor do I care. I support > > > things that I think are right. I think Gentoo is a right thing, even > > > though it is from USA and I do not think that war on Iraq, Gulf war or > > > the Vietnam war were right. > > > > Just because they both originate from the same location doesn't mean > > they share the same viewpoint. > > Yes, I'm aware of that, but I believe that Gentoo Inc is paying taxes to > the US, but I can't be sure since I'm really not interested in taxation > issues either. But by donating (which I've done) I might be indirectly > supporting the breaking of the Kioto protocol or even war, and that is > not a nice thought. > I'm paying taxes to the UK, It's not something I have much choice about. Until Gentoo gets big enough to get into a tax haven, I'd guess the same will apply. > Then again, I believe that Gentoo is politically neutral (or one of the > good guys) when it comes to thing outside the software industry and > inside software industry the definitely are among th good guys. Seems > like I'll be donating money in the future also (when I can afford it) > and my time when I can. > I don't think I've seen any political output from Gentoo as such, politically inactive would be a good description. > > I'm in the UK, this country joined in the > > pillage of Iraq too, and my best efforts to stop it only lead to me > > being arrested and photos of the arrest appearing on various websites. > > You wouldn't happen to have any URLs? I might want to see that picture. Somewhere on indymedia, look for protest at Menwith Hill, or I'll save you the bother by putting some on http://www.wot.no-ip.com/~house/ I ain't saying which is me though :) -- Yorkshire Dave top-posters will be ignored -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:23, Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote: > From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure > > > > Excellent, Karl. In fact it's really none of our business what model > Gentoo > > chooses. > > > > Yes it is ... if they are asking for donations. > > Tom Veldhouse > > No it isn't, as long as you are free to decline their request for donations. The day that donating to gentoo becomes compulsory then you'll have a moral right to know. The day they offer to sell you a piece of gentoo (stocks, bonds), then you'll have a legal right to know. Until that point, you have a choice to donate or not, and gentoo has a choice to accept or decline any donation you offer, and no other conditions exist in either direction. Try asking all those questions at your local store, see how far that gets you. Try asking your local bar owner how much his salary was last year. Try asking the guy who fixes cars in a back street workshop, the pool boy, the street sweeper. Sure, you can ask, if you don't mind being seen as rude and excessively nosey, but you should consider any reply as a blessing because you don't have any right to know. Around here you'd be more likely to get a backhand slap than an answer :) If you really want to know, contact Gentoo inc with cash in hand and try to buy $1M worth of Gentoo. If you have the money and Gentoo inc wants it, they'll take the time to figure it out and you'll know. Just for the record, I was the CEO and then CTO of a small-ish open-source based startup for a while. Most of the time I had only the broadest picture of our value, where the money was going etc, and any time I needed anything like a financial statement it cost a significant amount of money. The procedures required by UK law for any Ltd company at the end of each year are obscene. If I was donating any money to Gentoo I'd rather it be spent on pizza and weed for late night debugging sessions or an overt bribe to get us a 2.4.21 based gentoo-sources than see it wasted on bean-counting accountancy. Some accounting has to exist, but you don't need Gentoo to pay thousands of dollars just so you can send them a couple of hundred. -- Yorkshire Dave top-posters will be ignored -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Donation disclosure
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:16, Janne Johansson wrote: > On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 15:06, Eric Livingston wrote: > > [some samples...] > > > You'd just go right on donating? Because they write good software? I find > > that very odd, like you don't understand how money gets things done and by > > giving folks money you enable their agendas while reducing your ability to > > prosecute yours. > > I do not know where you got your ideas form, nor do I care. I support > things that I think are right. I think Gentoo is a right thing, even > though it is from USA and I do not think that war on Iraq, Gulf war or > the Vietnam war were right. Just because they both originate from the same location doesn't mean they share the same viewpoint. I'm in the UK, this country joined in the pillage of Iraq too, and my best efforts to stop it only lead to me being arrested and photos of the arrest appearing on various websites. > But... am I using Gentoo because a) it is good (the best I've found) or > b) because I can't use Windows since MS supports Bush administration? I'd go with A, the benefits of B are just a useful by-product :) -- Yorkshire Dave top-posters will be ignored -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] console unusable after vidmode change
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 23:32, Chris I wrote: > On 2003.08.10 17:18, Yorkshire Dave wrote: > > Recompile your kernel without framebuffer support > > I have the same problem here, that's how I cured it. One day it will > > get > > fixed properly, but don't hold your breath, the problem has existed a > > while. > > I've used the VESA framebuffer on my geforce2 desktop, it works fine. > AFAIK, it's just the rivafb that kills the nvidia driver. it's a known problem, just seems that a some don't experience it. I didn't on my first geforce2, system was working fine under redhat, I went and bought a dual head geforce2, swapped cards, and that was all it took. Only one way I've found to cure it in 2 years of trying / watching others try. # # Frame-buffer support # # CONFIG_FB is not set and if you still want hi res console # # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y works just fine, your vga= will need a different setting that's all -- Yorkshire Dave top-posters will be ignored -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Cryptoloop rc script
On Mon, 2003-08-11 at 03:48, Jerry McBride wrote: > I had the need to automate to some degree the startup of a crypto loop. After > digging around the internet a bit and not really finding exactly what I > needed... I borrowed a bash script that I found and polished it off a tad-bit > and added some original code. Works just the way I need. It's abit of a hack, > but doesn't contain any bugs(TM). > > If anyone else is interested, I can email a copy upon request. > > Cheers, Jerry. I'd be interested in seeing what the script does, my cryptoloop stuff all runs from fstab at the moment, no scripting needed /mnt/mutex is 32GB of random crap spread across a 3 disk raid 5 array in /etc/modules.autoload I have cryptoloop cipher-aes in /etc/fstab I have /mnt/mutex /mnt/crypto reiserfs defaults,noauto,notail,loop,encryption=aes,keybits=192,user 0 0 I can mount or umount /mnt/crypto any time I want and it all just works. What does yours do that's different? -- Yorkshire Dave top-posters will be ignored -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] email system for the home network
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 20:47, rh wrote: > As per http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=56633, I have followed > the instructions but am having a few problems. Although this guide is > great at telling you what to do to get your email system working, like > most of HOWTO's, magazine, books, etc concerning Linux, they don't > tell you why you are doing something. At the risk of looking stupid, I > have a couple of questions: > > Fetchmail / Procmail is working. But where exactly does fetchmail put > your email before it passes it to procmail? Haven't read the guide, but from what I recall of estting up fetchmail, it's either dumped directly into procmail or into your MTA. I also recall fetchmail as having an informative (ie good, useful) website, it's probably the best place to learn more. > > And if I am losing emails due to a bad procmailrc, how would I know > it? > procmail logging on with LOGFILE=/some/place/I/have/perms/to/write/to/procmail.log VERBOSE=yes LOGABSTRACT=all where 'I' = mail user for global procmail or $user for ~/.procmailrc > My emails are sitting in my ~/.maildir (after being fetchmail'ed and > procmail'ed), and I can read them using any text editor. Is this > normal? Does Courier-IMAP now just read the emails from this > directory? And I am assuming that when I try to access my email from > my work computer, the emails stay on my home computer and are not > downloaded to my work computer, correct? That's how maildir works, if you were using mbox they'd be stuck end-to-end in one big file Can't comment on courier imap, it doesn't like some of the stuff my mail system does so I don't use it > > Thx. > > R. > > -- Yorkshire Dave top-posters will be ignored -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] console unusable after vidmode change
On Sun, 2003-08-10 at 21:30, a_k_b wrote: > > Out of interest what video drivers are you using?? If you are using the > > nvidia driver and a frame buffer for the kernel boot up then this is a known > > problem (its in the nvidia readme's). It is caused as two kernel drivers both > > want the same hardware I think. > > ah good to know... but is there any way to fix this? i looked at the readme just a > moment ago and didnt find this problem or a fix for it. maybe i just didnt notice > something... > i think the problem occured around my last world update, which included the nvidia > drivers too... but with the one i used before (always up-to-date nvidia drivers > here), it just worked fine :-/ > > -- Recompile your kernel without framebuffer support I have the same problem here, that's how I cured it. One day it will get fixed properly, but don't hold your breath, the problem has existed a while. -- Yorkshire Dave top-posters will be ignored -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Spam harvesting
On Fri, 2003-08-01 at 18:39, Chris I wrote: > > Does anybody know if having mail bounce effectively removes you from > spamlists? I suppose it doesnt matter as there likely isnt a hot-naked- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the first place, and it would probably just end > up making me use up more traffic for no benifit. > > -Chris I Rejecting messages with 5XX at the MTA helps with a few, but bouncing doesn't help at all, and sometimes helps the spammer. Accepting messages and then bouncing them can do one of two things, both of which are bad. 1. You will harass the innocent owner of the email address which has been forged into the spam (often the address of an anti-spam activist). or 2. Your bounce will deliver the spam to the intended recipient. Spammers will send messages to you with the intended recipient in the From: header and you will "bounce" relay the spam to the victim. In other words, once your (or your ISP's) MTA has accepted spam, it's yours to keep or delete, there's no sending it back. The best you can do is make sure any open relays used are blocklisted and submit abuse reports to the spammer's ISP. -- Yorkshire Dave -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] MozillaFirebird problem with Quicktools
On Mon, 2003-07-21 at 01:32, Klaus D. Neumann wrote: > Hi, > > after I installed quicktools in Firebird, I am only able to run Firebird as > root. As normal user it won't start any longer. Is this a known problem? How > can I uninstall quicktools? When mozilla only runs as root, it often indicates a problem with file or directory permissions (in my experience anyway) run strace on it, you'll find out what it's dying on -- Yorkshire Dave -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution in console mode
On Fri, 2003-07-11 at 08:57, "Stefan" wrote: > - Original Message ----- > From: "Yorkshire Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 7:59 PM > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution in console mode > > > > On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 16:57, "Stefan" wrote: > > > Just add this to the append line in lilo, or you add it to the boot line > in > > > grub: > > > > > > vga=791 for example does 1024x768 > > > > > > but framebuffer has to be compiled into the kernel!! > > > > > > Works here without framebuffer support > Well vga= can only be specified, if you compile in frambuffer support, I > guess you are not quite sure what you compiled in. I'm very sure that what I compiled in wasn't framebuffer, because framebuffer suxx on this hardware. ctrl-alt-f[1-6] followed by ctrl-alt-f7 reduces the screen to a garbled mess when I run framebuffer and nvidia drivers together. [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin $ grep -B 3 CONFIG_FB /usr/src/linux/.config # # Frame-buffer support # # CONFIG_FB is not set > > > > > I'm no expert but have a few observations on this. My card is an nvidia > > geforce 2mx dual head, and I use lilo rather than grub. > > > > vga=0x164 in lilo.conf works for me and I don't have framebuffer support > > compiled. > > Again, that is impossible. I forgot to compile it in two weeks ago and vga= > anthing doesn't do shit. > Just read: > > http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Framebuffer-HOWTO-5.html#ss5.1 > > and you will see, that you are absolutely wrong > I do love being told I'm wrong, especially when I'm half right :) To fill in the gaps, vga= will work for either FB or VGA_CONSOLE + VIDEO_SELECT I'm no linux expert but I've lived worked and breathed computers since '79 so I'm not a newbie either. I wouldn't post saying you don't need framebuffer unless I knew you didn't need framebuffer. I just forgot to say you need vga_console and video_select instead :) try it and see [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin $ grep -B 3 -A 3 VGA /usr/src/linux/.config # # Console drivers # CONFIG_VGA_CONSOLE=y CONFIG_VIDEO_SELECT=y # CONFIG_MDA_CONSOLE is not set [EMAIL PROTECTED] admin $ grep vga= /etc/lilo.conf vga=0x164 -- Yorkshire Dave -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution in console mode
On Thu, 2003-07-10 at 16:57, "Stefan" wrote: > Just add this to the append line in lilo, or you add it to the boot line in > grub: > > vga=791 for example does 1024x768 > > but framebuffer has to be compiled into the kernel!! Works here without framebuffer support I'm no expert but have a few observations on this. My card is an nvidia geforce 2mx dual head, and I use lilo rather than grub. vga=0x164 in lilo.conf works for me and I don't have framebuffer support compiled. vga=ask will give you a list to choose from and a prompt to type your choice, typing "scan" at the prompt will give you a different list again. IIRC you get different lists if you compile framebuffer support. framebuffer causes console lockups for me when switching to x with ctrl-alt-f7, something to do with nvidia drivers. I can switch from x ok, but can't switch back, which is why I don't use it. You may also want to alter or disable the console font in /etc/rc.conf Hope that helps :) > > - Original Message - > From: "Condon Thomas A KPWA" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Gentoo-Users (E-mail)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 5:50 PM > Subject: [gentoo-user] Screen resolution in console mode > > > > > > Folks, > > > > When I boot off the CD (Gentoo 1.4_RC4) I get small fonts and lines for my > > screen resolution by default. It actually uses the initrd.1024 boot > > argument all on its own. However, when I boot to console mode on my own I > > get a larger font and less screen resolution. > > > > Where can I change this? > > > > > > In Harmony's Way, and In A Chord, > > > > Tom :-}) > > > > Thomas A. Condon > > Barbershop Bass Singer > > Registered Linux User #154358 > > A Jester Unemployed > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > > > > > > > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- Yorkshire Dave -- Scanned by MailScanner at wot.no-ip.com -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
