Re: [newbie] Mandrake10 Community

2004-07-26 Thread Keith Powell
Thanks Charlie, John and Carroll for your replies.

I was off the list for some time and lost track of what was happening to 
Community.

Am now much clearer about the situation.

Cheers

Keith


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Re: [newbie] high pitched whine coming from new Maxtor!

2004-07-26 Thread Anthony Cull
Angus Auld wrote:
I seem to be getting a very annoying, and scary, high pitched 
whining sound occasionally from my 3 week old Maxtor 40 GB 
7200rpm drive.
Should I back everything up now?! :-/

My drive mounts in a vertical position. Could that cause a problem? 
I could find no warnings against vertical mounting in the docs 
that came with it.

The noise comes and goes, and just started doing so the 
past day or so. It has been working very well otherwise.

I just found my purchase receipt.I may well need it.
Anyone able to give me a prognosis? ;-)
Regards.
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It could be the way it is mounted try mounting it normaly. Also the 
accustics may be set to off this increases the drives performance but 
makes it louder. Maxtor drives I have found are verry reliable. My 
maxtor makes the occasonal ticking sound during high load mine is 3-4 
years old. Have a look around on the net for SMART utills. Windows if 
you have that installed use hard drive health from www.panterasoft.com 
and that should give you more than enough info. Also maxtor has a boot 
CD to fix the disk etc. (also good to fix the drive after something 
corupts your partitions.)


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Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth

2004-07-26 Thread donmeliton
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 04:43, John Wilson wrote:

 Of course you could be missing the point that Microsoft keeps making that 
 Linux itself is a virus. :-)

And so it is! I've been infected! Aaargh! ;)

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Re: [newbie] backup/restore/repartitioning

2004-07-26 Thread Asa Rossoff
Frank wrote:
Though the CD part may not apply to you, you may wish to start with what 
is offered here to make a tar ball of your full system which ought to 
fit within the space you have left on your windows system:

http://linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexreq=viewarticleartid=222page=1 

Backing up to CDs Made Simple: Version 1.1 total words in this text)
(14888 Reads)by LinuxOrbit.com: January 15. 2002
by David LeCount
Should get you stared at least. Enjoy.
Regards
Frank
Thanks.  I have the tar commands from  that how-to, so I'll go for the
backup.  If that goes well, I'll try to repartition the drive from the
Mandrake install CD.. and try to get to a prompt from the CD (I managed
to another time somehow :-), hope that I can access the windows
partition, and try to untar my backup, and run lilo.
Does my idea of what I need to do sound on-track?
In any case, I can still access the list from Windows if I am having
trouble.
Thanks,
Asa




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Re: [newbie] high pitched whine coming from new Maxtor!

2004-07-26 Thread Graham Watkins
Anthony Cull wrote:
. Maxtor drives I have found are verry reliable. My
maxtor makes the occasonal ticking sound during high load mine is 3-4 
years old. 
Reliable? Up to a point Lord Copper.
I've had two of them croak on me - one after 6 months (which I got 
replaced under guarantee) and the other after about 3 years. In my 
experience a ticking sound is an indication that the final appeal has 
failed and it is not long for this world.  You'd better make regular 
backups while you still can.

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that you aren't a nice person. - Albert Camus
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Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-26 Thread SME Server Admin
On Friday 23 Jul 2004 20:02, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
 On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 18:25, SME Server Admin wrote:
  Hiya
 
  I now use Kontact on Mandrake 10 for all email.
 
  At the moment I have a simple spam filter that I put in but I'm looking
  for something I can use that will handle it for me, one that can learn if
  that's possible?
 
  TIA
 
  Elwyn

 If you're really wanting to filter spam, why aren't you using your local
 postfix setup with procmail?

 stephen kuhn - proprietor

Um, er, um, I dunno...

What do those things do?

Kontact does very well what I need for it now I have found SA.  I don't want 
to make things tooo complicted

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Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-26 Thread SME Server Admin
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 05:22, Rob Blomquist wrote:

 FN? FP? auto-learn 0? local.cf?

 I have no idea what these are. If you help me decode this, maybe I can
 figure out what you are asking.

 Rob

Ahh, a man with more understanding of these things than  I ;)

At the moment I'm building up a collection of spammissed and then will do 
the next set of instructions :)

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[newbie] Expiring Email in Kontact

2004-07-26 Thread SME Server Admin
Hiya

Right, I've had a look in the help files, but help on Kontact is missing, 
there is no entry for Expire and I've looked on google without fruition!

Could some kind soul explain what Expire Email is please?

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Re: [newbie] backup/restore/repartitioning

2004-07-26 Thread Asa Rossoff
Frank wrote:
H
OK! Your choice of using Mandrake to do the actually partitioning and 
formating is your only choice if you wish to have your Windows partition 
survive the exercise un-disturbed. Your only other such option is to use 
something like Partition Magic. AS ALWAYS! You must backup things first!

I've forgotten the content of the orginal post so forgive me for 
assuming you have only one harddrive.
I have two harddrives, so thankfully, I won't have to touch the 
partition table on the Windows drive, where my Linux backup will be.

My warning here is that you must study and read carefully, all things 
within the partitioning exercise when you get to that part of the 
Mandrake Installation. I actually tried different ideas to see how 
things would look 'on paper' when within the partition part, because you 
can simply back up one and do it again and again before commiting to 
what you believe is correct.

Aim for a good partition mix that would suit your needs but basically do 
not exceed 3 x primary partitions and 1 x extended partition broken up 
further into 4 actually partitions, for each harddisk, for now. Do a 
search for linux partitioning and you'll get a clearer idea of what is 
available for you, and a clearer idea of sizing partitions.

For example:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] frank]$ df 
FilesystemSize  Used 
Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5

966M  121M  796M  14% /
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1

966M   11M  906M   2% /boot
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8

9.4G  4.2G  5.3G  45% /home
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3
12G  
6.1G  4.7G  57% /mnt/empty
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2
16M  
2.3M   13M  16% /mnt/hdb2_boot
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part5

92M   55M   33M  63% /mnt/hdb5_root
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part6

92M   62M   25M  72% /mnt/hdb6_var
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part7
   3.1G  
1.9G  1.1G  64% /mnt/hdb7_usr
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part9
   1.5G  
1.4G  109M  93% /mnt/hdb9_home
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part1

14G   12G  2.5G  83% /mnt/win_c2
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4

3.4G  2.4G 1016M  71% /mnt/win_h
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6

9.4G  3.6G  5.4G  40% /usr
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part9
  1020M  
141M  827M  15% /var

To bring this back to something you may have gotten used to read the 
above table as:

Target0 = hda [harddrive A - Master]
Target1 = hdb [harddrive B - Slave  where Windows belongs?!?]
part/n/ = the relavant partion number  eg: 
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part9 is my _*hdb9*_ partition on my 
slave harddrive and contains a previous installation home directory ( 
mandrake9.1 in this case.)

The one main partition missing here and is extra to the others, is the 
swap partition - needed for linux.

So don't rush here, PLAN PLAN PLAN. It is important. Get this right and 
the rest will follow.

As an exercise, read my table above and tell me where it could be said 
that,  You screwed up there, Frank!
Well, to really test myself -- since I did read up on partitioning in 
the past, I would say your boot partition is really overkill :-)

I am in a much more space-constrained setup, and have installed most of 
the software I need already.  I have already moved my swap partition 
onto the Windows harddrive (it is the only Linux partition on that 
drive), to free up about 300 more MB for Linux.

Here's my df output:
Filesystem   1K-blocks  Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdb1  1944056   1688400156900  92% /
/dev/hdb680979 32225 48754  40% /home
/dev/hda1  6015432   4566836   1448596  76% /mnt/win_c
/dev/hdb5   180066107891 62878  64% /var
My swap is on hda (300 MB)
and I have about 260 MB (270,000 blocks) unallocated on hdb, free for me 
to redistribute when I repartition.

I think I have the luxury of some more personal space, the / needs 
more flex room, and a bit more for  var... I want room for a possible 
database, web site, and/or 

[newbie] (OT humour ?) installation instructions - may be helpful

2004-07-26 Thread Poogle
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml



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Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-26 Thread Chris
On Sunday 25 July 2004 11:22 pm, Rob Blomquist wrote:

 
  Rob, do you check your inbox and spam folder for FN's and FP's before
  running your script?  I take it you have auto-learn 0 in your local.cf?

 FN? FP? auto-learn 0? local.cf?

 I have no idea what these are. If you help me decode this, maybe I can
 figure out what you are asking.

 Rob

FN's = False Negatives, a 'spam' that has been marked as 'ham' by SA
FP's = False Positives, a 'ham' that has been marked as 'spam' by SA

Below is my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf:

# How many hits before a message is considered spam.
required_hits   5.0

# Whether to change the subject of suspected spam
rewrite_subject 1

# Text to prepend to subject if rewrite_subject is used
subject_tag *SPAM*

# Encapsulate spam in an attachment
report_safe 0

# Use terse version of the spam report
use_terse_report0

# Enable the Bayes system
use_bayes   1
score BAYES_00 0 0 -6.400 -6.400
score BAYES_01 0 0 -6.600 -6.600
score BAYES_10 0 0 -6.400 -5.801
score BAYES_20 0 0 -5.801 -3.101
score BAYES_30 0 0 -1.246 -1.604
score BAYES_60 0 0 2.002 2.002
score BAYES_70 0 0 2.637 2.637
score BAYES_80 0 0 4.1 4.1
score BAYES_90 0 0 4.2 4.2
score BAYES_99 0 0 4.300 4.3

# Enable Bayes auto-learning
auto_learn  0
# bayes_path /etc/mail/spamassassin
bayes_path /home/chris/.spamassassin/bayes
# bayes_file_mode 0777
bayes_file_mode 0666
bayes_auto_learn_threshold_nonspam 0.1
bayes_auto_learn_threshold_spam 10.0
bayes_auto_expire 1
bayes_expiry_max_db_size 25
bayes_ignore_header ReSent-Date
bayes_ignore_header ReSent-From
bayes_ignore_header ReSent-Message-ID
bayes_ignore_header ReSent-Subject
bayes_ignore_header ReSent-To
bayes_ignore_header Resent-Date
bayes_ignore_header Resent-From

# Enable or disable network checks
skip_rbl_checks 0
use_razor2  1
razor_timeout   10
use_dcc 1
dcc_add_header  1
dcc_timeout 10
dcc_body_max99
dcc_fuz1_max99
dcc_fuz2_max99
use_pyzor   1
pyzor_path  /usr/bin/pyzor
pyzor_add_header1
# add_header all Pyzor _PYZOR_

# Mail using languages used in these country codes will not be marked
# as being possibly spam in a foreign language.
ok_languagesall

# Mail using locales used in these country codes will not be marked
# as being possibly spam in a foreign language.
ok_locales  all

score RCVD_IN_RFCI  0

Below is the link to the SA mailing list where you can definately get more 
information than I can give:

list-subscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Also check out www.surbl.org for the Spam URI Realtime Blocklist.  There is 
also a mailing list for this:

List-Subscribe: http://lists.surbl.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss,
mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

I'm no expert at all in this or anything, but, this is how I've running SA 
with Kmail and its very effective.  If you need anymore info, let me know 
and I'll provide you with the list of rules I'm running (which are only 
about 19 or 20).


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Re: [newbie] (OT humour ?) installation instructions - may be helpful

2004-07-26 Thread SME Server Admin
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 11:23, Poogle wrote:
 http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml

Ahh thank you :)

Elwyn


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[newbie] Compiling VMware

2004-07-26 Thread Joseph Gregory Croes

I got this message trying to run vmware:[EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]$ suPassword:[EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]# vmware [1] 2621[EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]# vmware-config.plMaking sure VMware Workstation's services are stopped.Stopping VMware services:Virtual machine monitor [ OK ]grep: /proc/ksyms: No such file or directorygrep: /proc/ksyms: No such file or directorygrep: /proc/ksyms: No such file or directoryTrying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.None of VMware Workstation's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for yourrunning kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the vmmon module foryour system (you need to have a C compiler installed on your system)? [yes]I tried to install gcc compiler but with no result.

Can somebody help me with this problem?Thanks,Gregory Help STOP spam with the new MSN 8  and get 2 months FREE*


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Re: [newbie] x-mplayer2

2004-07-26 Thread _nasturtium
Hi!

Firstly, sorry for taking so long to reply.

On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:00 am, Paul Smith wrote:
 I have not been able to have KMPlayer working on any other sites.
 However, it plays the mp3 files in my hard disk.

Do you have xine installed? I'm not sure if mplayer supports .asx. (For xine, 
you might have to link directly e.g. http://10.133.169.15:80/tsfdirecto 
instead of www.tsf.sapo.net/tsfdirecto.asx).

Hope this helps!

Regards,
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Re: [newbie] Compiling VMware

2004-07-26 Thread Tomas Tudja



Hello,
you mean you have gcc installed and vmware is 
unable to use it for vmon compilation? Can you invoke gcc by entering gcc in 
console? Did you install gcc from rpm ore compile it from sources? Check the way 
you installed gcc. Probably vmware installer have problems with gcc 
recognition.

Catcher

  - Original Message - 
  From: 
  Joseph Gregory Croes 
  To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 12:51 
PM
  Subject: [newbie] Compiling VMware 
  
  
  
  I got this message trying to run 
  vmware:[EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]$ suPassword:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
  gregory]# vmware [1] 2621[EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]# 
  vmware-config.plMaking sure VMware Workstation's services are 
  stopped.Stopping VMware services:Virtual machine monitor [ OK 
  ]grep: /proc/ksyms: No such file or directorygrep: /proc/ksyms: No 
  such file or directorygrep: /proc/ksyms: No such file or 
  directoryTrying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running 
  kernel.None of VMware Workstation's pre-built vmmon modules is 
  suitable for yourrunning kernel. Do you want this program to try to build 
  the vmmon module foryour system (you need to have a C compiler installed 
  on your system)? [yes]I tried to install gcc compiler but with no 
  result.
  
  Can somebody help me with this 
  problem?Thanks,Gregory 
  
  Help STOP spam with the new 
  MSN 8 and get 2 months FREE* 
  
  

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Re: [newbie] high pitched whine coming from new Maxtor!

2004-07-26 Thread Anthony Cull

Reliable? Up to a point Lord Copper.
I've had two of them croak on me - one after 6 months (which I got 
replaced under guarantee) and the other after about 3 years. In my 
experience a ticking sound is an indication that the final appeal has 
failed and it is not long for this world.  You'd better make regular 
backups while you still can.

Its fine.. sure its degrading but I have neglected the drive intill 
about 2 months ago. It was running at 55-65c.


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Re: [newbie] Sound Blaster MP3+

2004-07-26 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Sunday 25 July 2004 15:11, Eric Jackson wrote:
 Hi,

 I have a Sound Blaster MP3+ USB soundcard installed on my Windows
 laptop. It runs fine.

 I tried to unstall it on my linux box running 10.0 Official. Mandrake
 recognized it as an unknown audio device.

It is supported by ALSA using the snd-usb-audio module. It should show 
up with 'cat /proc/asound/cards'. If it doesn't try Harddrake.

 Has any one gotten this soundcard to work under Mandrake? If so could
 you please tell me what you did to get it to work?


 Eric Jackson
 [EMAIL PROTECTED]

HTH,

-Frans



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Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-26 Thread Todd Slater
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 07:11:14AM +0200, Marc Hultquist wrote:
 
  /var/www/html
 In-correct. By default apache2 installs its htdocs/ in the folder where 
 everything else is installed, I.E if when installing apache you do as follows 
 ./configure --prefix=/apache/  your apache will be installed in 
 obviously /apache/ and your htdocs will be in /apache/htdocs/ !

If you use the Mandrake packaging system then the root is in fact
/var/www/html. I would assume a user compiling Apache from source would
have enough sense to know how to configure it!

Todd


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Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-26 Thread Lee Wiggers
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 09:57:05 -0400
Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 07:11:14AM +0200, Marc Hultquist wrote:
  
   /var/www/html
  In-correct. By default apache2 installs its htdocs/ in the
  folder where everything else is installed, I.E if when
  installing apache you do as follows ./configure
  --prefix=/apache/  your apache will be installed in obviously
  /apache/ and your htdocs will be in /apache/htdocs/ !
 
 If you use the Mandrake packaging system then the root is in fact
 /var/www/html. I would assume a user compiling Apache from source
 would have enough sense to know how to configure it!
 
 Todd
 
 
OTOH, I've had more trouble with lesser problems.  I just spent two
hours with a network problem.  The rj45 wasn't plugged in.

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Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-26 Thread Marc Hultquist
On Monday, 26 July 2004 15:57, Todd Slater wrote:
 On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 07:11:14AM +0200, Marc Hultquist wrote:
   /var/www/html
 
  In-correct. By default apache2 installs its htdocs/ in the folder where
  everything else is installed, I.E if when installing apache you do as
  follows ./configure --prefix=/apache/  your apache will be installed in
  obviously /apache/ and your htdocs will be in /apache/htdocs/ !

 If you use the Mandrake packaging system then the root is in fact
 /var/www/html. I would assume a user compiling Apache from source would
 have enough sense to know how to configure it!

 Todd
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Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-26 Thread Tomas Tudja
Hello,
The question is not Where the site root directory is? The right question
is Where the apache configuration file is? That will help anyone to aviod
problems like this one just discussed. In configuration file you can find it
anytime and config file is IMHO intuitive enought to provide information
about site root directory to anyone able to install a system.

Folks, config files are your friends, they should be readed immediatelly
after the README and man pages of product. :

OT NOTE: if somebody is starting to write a php or cgi scripts, it is good
to remember that it is dangerous to have scripts in site root directory (as
somebody wrote in this streame). Basic scheme: index.php is located and
executed in /var/www/html, other scripts are located in /var/www/myphp and
executed from index.php. It is little bit more difficult to play with site
wrote like this (or to hack it).

Sorry for my english :

Best Regards
Tomas Tudja

- Original Message -
From: Todd Slater [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 2:57 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???


 On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 07:11:14AM +0200, Marc Hultquist wrote:
 
   /var/www/html
  In-correct. By default apache2 installs its htdocs/ in the folder where
  everything else is installed, I.E if when installing apache you do as
follows
  ./configure --prefix=/apache/  your apache will be installed in
  obviously /apache/ and your htdocs will be in /apache/htdocs/ !

 If you use the Mandrake packaging system then the root is in fact
 /var/www/html. I would assume a user compiling Apache from source would
 have enough sense to know how to configure it!

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Re: [newbie] Installation folder for Apache 2 ???

2004-07-26 Thread Marc Hultquist
 OTOH, I've had more trouble with lesser problems.  I just spent two
 hours with a network problem.  The rj45 wasn't plugged in.

Ya I done that as well in the past :-)

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Re: [newbie] Compiling VMware

2004-07-26 Thread Frans Ketelaars
On Monday 26 July 2004 13:51, Joseph Gregory Croes wrote:
 I got this message trying to run vmware:

 [EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]$ su
 Password:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]# vmware 
 [1] 2621
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] gregory]# vmware-config.pl
 Making sure VMware Workstation's services are stopped.

 Stopping VMware services:
 Virtual machine monitor [ OK ]

 grep: /proc/ksyms: No such file or directory
 grep: /proc/ksyms: No such file or directory
 grep: /proc/ksyms: No such file or directory

On my Mandrake 10.0 system with a 2.6 kernel there is no /proc/ksyms 
file but there is /proc/kallsyms. I think it's a 2.4/2.6 kernel thing.

 Trying to find a suitable vmmon module for your running kernel.

 None of VMware Workstation's pre-built vmmon modules is suitable for
 your running kernel. Do you want this program to try to build the
 vmmon module for your system (you need to have a C compiler installed
 on your system)? [yes]

 I tried to install gcc compiler but with no result.
  
 Can somebody help me with this problem?

 Thanks,
 Gregory

Please don't use html in your email :-)

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Re: Re: [newbie] Spam Filter with Kontact

2004-07-26 Thread Rob Blomquist
  
   Rob, do you check your inbox and spam folder for FN's and FP's before
   running your script?  I take it you have auto-learn 0 in your local.cf?
 
  FN? FP? auto-learn 0? local.cf?
 
  I have no idea what these are. If you help me decode this, maybe I can
  figure out what you are asking.
 
  Rob
 
 FN's = False Negatives, a 'spam' that has been marked as 'ham' by SA
 FP's = False Positives, a 'ham' that has been marked as 'spam' by SA

I have KMail move all my mail that SA thinks is spam into a folder called SpamPile. I 
let KMail delete any message that is older than 3 days from there. If I get a FP, I 
put it in the box where it belongs, if I get a FN, I place it in SpamPile. I run a 
script I wrote called spam-learn that runs sa-learn for various folders, that I have 
classified as spam or ham.

 Below is my /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf:
Never edited this one.

Literally, all I do is place the FP or FN into the correct box (which rarely needs to 
be done) and run my_rules_du_jour once a week. I get very few spams in my inbox and 
about 20 a day are sent to me.


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[newbie] Perl module

2004-07-26 Thread Poogle
Just updated to the latest f-prot and the old check-updates.sh script has been 
replaced by one called check-updates.pl. Upon issuing as root 
./check-updates.pl I get the following error 

 ./check-updates.pl
Error: Unable to include perl module: 'HTTP::Request'.
Please install this module and try re-running this script.
(Hint: man CPAN)

Fatal error. Exiting...
 
I can't take the Hint as I can't find man CPAN and I can't find the 
appropriate RPM which includes the above mentioned module.
Google would be my friend here but unfortunately the site is currently 
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Re: [newbie] Perl module

2004-07-26 Thread Raffaele BELARDI
Poogle wrote:
 ./check-updates.pl
Error: Unable to include perl module: 'HTTP::Request'.
Please install this module and try re-running this script.
(Hint: man CPAN)
Fatal error. Exiting...
 
I can't take the Hint as I can't find man CPAN and I can't find the 
appropriate RPM which includes the above mentioned module.
Google would be my friend here but unfortunately the site is currently 
down :-( 
Try installing the perl-libwww-perl package (it's part of the standard 
MDK installation).

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Re: [newbie] Perl module

2004-07-26 Thread Poogle
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 17:39, Raffaele BELARDI wrote:
 Poogle wrote:
   ./check-updates.pl
  Error: Unable to include perl module: 'HTTP::Request'.
  Please install this module and try re-running this script.
  (Hint: man CPAN)
 
  Fatal error. Exiting...
 
  I can't take the Hint as I can't find man CPAN and I can't find the
  appropriate RPM which includes the above mentioned module.
  Google would be my friend here but unfortunately the site is currently
  down :-(

 Try installing the perl-libwww-perl package (it's part of the standard
 MDK installation).

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Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time

2004-07-26 Thread Lyvim Xaphir
On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 18:04, Stephen Kühn wrote:
 On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 07:19, Rob Blomquist wrote:
  
  Try using spamc as spamd is just a wrapper for spamc I understand.
  
  I filter using SA from within Kmail, and when I used spamd, I had my Kmail  
  come to a halt while messages were being filtered, Now with spamc, there is 
  only a short pause, and everything is running.
 
 I wish I could, but ya see, my system is setup as a global mail server
 (for Tina and myself) - so the configuration I'm using is system wide,
 hence not being able to use it from within Evolution; I try to mirror my
 client's setups; clamd is smaller than calling SA proper.

Tell me please that you are NOT running these server programs on your
workstation rather than a seperate server box.

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Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth

2004-07-26 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 09:42, Marc wrote:
   At one time someone here on the newbie list gave a link to a article that 
 did a nice simple job of explaining why it is next to impossible for a 
 succussfull linux virus to be created. I have been searching the archives and 
 have been unable to find it again.
 Can anyone here point me to it?
 
 Thanks
 Marc

The simple fact of the matter is that a virus cannot run in a secure
environment; you have to have root privileges in order to do so; hence
an attack on a linux box is generally from outside, and not inside -
unless someone was successful at running a rootkit on the machine in
question.
 

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Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth

2004-07-26 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 12:43, John Wilson wrote:

 Of course you could be missing the point that Microsoft keeps making that 
 Linux itself is a virus. :-)
 
 ttfn
 
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Re: [newbie] (OT humour ?) installation instructions - may be helpful

2004-07-26 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 20:23, Poogle wrote:
 http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml

My installation failed, hence my desire to try the installation on dead
cat instead...closely resembles red hat - so I thought there might be
a compatibility thing going on...


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Re: [newbie] Spammassassin: spamd consuming 90%+cpu time

2004-07-26 Thread Stephen Kühn
On Tue, 2004-07-27 at 03:12, Lyvim Xaphir wrote:
 On Sun, 2004-07-25 at 18:04, Stephen Kühn wrote:
  On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 07:19, Rob Blomquist wrote:
   
   Try using spamc as spamd is just a wrapper for spamc I understand.
   
   I filter using SA from within Kmail, and when I used spamd, I had my Kmail  
   come to a halt while messages were being filtered, Now with spamc, there is 
   only a short pause, and everything is running.
  
  I wish I could, but ya see, my system is setup as a global mail server
  (for Tina and myself) - so the configuration I'm using is system wide,
  hence not being able to use it from within Evolution; I try to mirror my
  client's setups; clamd is smaller than calling SA proper.
 
 Tell me please that you are NOT running these server programs on your
 workstation rather than a seperate server box.
 
 LX

I wish I could - but until I have the time to take this lowly P200 I
have sitting next to my workbench and turn IT into a mail server, well,
my workstation IS the server...time, my friend...time...and
resource...but eventually, I will move all server related services to
another box...(oh, yeah, it takes MONEY too, forgot to mention that)

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Re: [newbie] Expiring Email in Kontact

2004-07-26 Thread Inhabitant of Zion
I believe you set a date that restricts the length of time Kmail stores a email in a 
folder before an automated deletion process takes place. Must be in the settings 
someplace but as I don't use Kmail can't help there.

Hence it expires (i.e. ceases to exist, kicks the deleted bucket, runs out of time...)

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:19:04 +0100
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 Hiya
 
 Right, I've had a look in the help files, but help on Kontact is missing, 
 there is no entry for Expire and I've looked on google without fruition!
 
 Could some kind soul explain what Expire Email is please?
 
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Re: [newbie] (OT humour ?) installation instructions - may be helpful

2004-07-26 Thread Aron Smith
Stephen Kühn wrote:
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 20:23, Poogle wrote:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml

My installation failed, hence my desire to try the installation on dead
cat instead...closely resembles red hat - so I thought there might be
a compatibility thing going on...
your form factor is wrong in your climate use a Red 'Roo instead.

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Re: [newbie] (OT humour ?) installation instructions - may be helpful

2004-07-26 Thread Lanman
Aron Smith wrote:
Stephen Kühn wrote:
On Mon, 2004-07-26 at 20:23, Poogle wrote:
http://www.strangehorizons.com/2004/20040405/badger.shtml

My installation failed, hence my desire to try the installation on dead
cat instead...closely resembles red hat - so I thought there might be
a compatibility thing going on...
your form factor is wrong in your climate use a Red 'Roo instead.

stephen kuhn - proprietor

Sigh! I can see where this is going! Get ready for about 500 posts to 
this thread!

In Canada, you have to upgrade to Moose 1.10 if you want it to work in 
our climate, because Beaver 6.3 just can't handle the load!

There, I threw in my 2 cents worth.
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[newbie] urpmi Installs - with options

2004-07-26 Thread Travis Crook
Hi All,
I have a question about installing Apache with urpmi.  Can I specify
options for Apache while using urpmi?  For example, can I add 
./configure --prefix=PREFIX to the urpmi command and have it work?

Thanks!

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Re: [newbie] Expiring Email in Kontact

2004-07-26 Thread SME Server Admin
On Monday 26 Jul 2004 21:19, Inhabitant of Zion wrote:
 I believe you set a date that restricts the length of time Kmail stores a
 email in a folder before an automated deletion process takes place. Must be
 in the settings someplace but as I don't use Kmail can't help there.

 Hence it expires (i.e. ceases to exist, kicks the deleted bucket, runs out
 of time...)

 On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 11:19:04 +0100

 SME Server Admin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Hiya
 
  Right, I've had a look in the help files, but help on Kontact is missing,
  there is no entry for Expire and I've looked on google without
  fruition!
 
  Could some kind soul explain what Expire Email is please?
 
  Elwyn

Gotcha! THanks :)

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[newbie] How to undo a symbolic link?

2004-07-26 Thread Paul Smith
Dear All
I would like to know how to undo the following symbolic link:
ln -f -s /opt/winetools/wt210 /usr/bin/wt
Any ideas?
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Re: [newbie] Message could not be delivered

2004-07-26 Thread Lanman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The original message was included as attachment

WTF??? the attached zip file seems to have a whack of virus files inside!
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Re: [newbie] Message could not be delivered

2004-07-26 Thread et
On Monday 26 July 2004 07:09 pm, Lanman wrote:
 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  The original message was included as attachment

 WTF??? the attached zip file seems to have a whack of virus files inside!

 Lanman
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Re: [newbie] How to undo a symbolic link?

2004-07-26 Thread Thomas Ewald
Don't you just delete the "copy"?Paul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear AllI would like to know how to undo the following symbolic link:ln -f -s /opt/winetools/wt210 /usr/bin/wtAny ideas?Thanks in advance,PaulWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comJoin the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
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Re: [newbie] How to undo a symbolic link?

2004-07-26 Thread Clint Harshaw
Paul Smith wrote:
Dear All
I would like to know how to undo the following symbolic link:
ln -f -s /opt/winetools/wt210 /usr/bin/wt
Any ideas?
Thanks in advance,
Paul
Hi Paul:
How about if you try this:
rm name_of_what_you_want_to_delete
So for your example, if you want to delete /usr/bin/wt, you could:
rm /usr/bin/wt
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Re: [newbie] How to undo a symbolic link?

2004-07-26 Thread Paul Smith
Clint Harshaw wrote:
I would like to know how to undo the following symbolic link:
ln -f -s /opt/winetools/wt210 /usr/bin/wt
How about if you try this:
rm name_of_what_you_want_to_delete
So for your example, if you want to delete /usr/bin/wt, you could: rm
/usr/bin/wt
Thanks Clint and Thomas for the solution for my question.
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Re: [newbie] How to undo a symbolic link?

2004-07-26 Thread Thomas Ewald
Wow...first time I was actually able to be helpful. ;-) Progress!

Tom EwaldPaul Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Clint Harshaw wrote: I would like to know how to undo the following symbolic link:  ln -f -s /opt/winetools/wt210 /usr/bin/wt  How about if you try this:  rm name_of_what_you_want_to_delete  So for your example, if you want to delete /usr/bin/wt, you could: rm /usr/bin/wtThanks Clint and Thomas for the solution for my question.PaulWant to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.comJoin the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com
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Re: [newbie] The Linux virus myth

2004-07-26 Thread bascule
stephen,
i'd agree that a truly secure environment would prevent unknown programs from 
running, but a virus doesn't necessarily need root privs.
if i can write a shell script that runs as a user, that can wipe my user 
files, send mail with attachments, create a dotfile and a user cron job to 
run it, then so can a virus writer,
all that is required is that i be tricked into downloading the file/saving the 
attachment, making it executable and then running it, of course that involves 
a lot of social engineering compared to simply relying on a broken email 
client to do all that for you, but, let me say that again, but, in a world 
where every one switches to linux from windows there will be an awful lot of 
users on whom such social engineering will work.
you and i, and probably most everyone on this list at this moment in time are, 
almost by definition, the kind of people who like to know more than just how 
to click a mouse button, folk who like to learn about our machines, in doing 
so we will inevitably pick up skills of net hygiene, if not by deliberate 
learning then by a form of osmosis, surrounded by a culture of people who 
truly 'know better'.
one day that previous paragraph may no longer be true.
that is why a lot of old hands in the linux/bsd/unix world will seem to be 
anal about things like md5sums, pgp sigs on mails etc. not because they all 
move in a harsh 'cracker eat hacker' world (though some do), but because they 
can see the future, or at least one possible iteration of it, and getting 
those habits down now, before they become necessary, can't hurt any :)

bascule

On Monday 26 Jul 2004 8:05 pm, Stephen Khn wrote:
 The simple fact of the matter is that a virus cannot run in a secure
 environment; you have to have root privileges in order to do so; hence
 an attack on a linux box is generally from outside, and not inside -
 unless someone was successful at running a rootkit on the machine in
 question.

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Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me

2004-07-26 Thread JoeHill
On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:57:50 -0400
Lanman disseminated the following:

  Or is it so stupid and inscrutable that I should just choose a new one?
  'fuckmicrosoft' is, unfortunately, taken ;-)
  
  /joehill opens hisself up to all the Don Rickles on the list...
 
 Joe; try http://dotcanuck.com; . based out of Victoria, and they know 
 their stuff. Extremely helpful guys. I use them for all my domains and 
 for clients domains. Been 100% on the ball for 5 years.
 
 
 See? No Rickles! Maybe some Wrinkles, but No Rickles!

Thanks for the tip, d00d, but I had an epiphany...well maybe that's giving it
too much significance...anyway, in a few days www.freeyourmachine.org should be
live and continuing my sinister plan to bore the world to death.

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Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me

2004-07-26 Thread Dennis Duffner


At least you can likely reregister the domain. through
a fu**up with Network Solutions, some outfit in Hong Kong grabbed my
domain. I learned a lesson: don't deal with Network
Solutions/Verisign. I went with another registrar for a domain for
an organization that I belong to and I've been very happy with
it.
At 09:24 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote:
I went and let my domain name
expire, and I can't remember who I originally
registered it with.
Even the 'whois' info is already gone :-(
It comes up as unavailable at Network Solutions, any way to get it
back?
Or is it so stupid and inscrutable that I should just choose a new
one?
'fuckmicrosoft' is, unfortunately, taken ;-)
/joehill opens hisself up to all the Don Rickles on the list...
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If those in charge of our society - politicians, corporate
executives, and
owners of press and television - can dominate our ideas, they will be
secure in
their power. They will not need soldiers patrolling the streets. We will
control
ourselves. -- Howard Zinn

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Re: [newbie] [OT] Domain name expired...stupid me

2004-07-26 Thread Dennis Duffner


I didn't put in the registrar I use on my previous post, but
www.godaddy.com is
a great outfit to work with and the price is not out of this world
either!
At 09:57 PM 7/26/2004, you wrote:
JoeHill wrote:
I went and let my domain name
expire, and I can't remember who I originally
registered it with.
Even the 'whois' info is already gone :-(
It comes up as unavailable at Network Solutions, any way to get it
back?
Or is it so stupid and inscrutable that I should just choose a new
one?
'fuckmicrosoft' is, unfortunately, taken ;-)
/joehill opens hisself up to all the Don Rickles on the
list...
Joe; try
http://dotcanuck.com
. based out of Victoria, and they know their stuff. Extremely helpful
guys. I use them for all my domains and for clients domains. Been 100% on
the ball for 5 years.

See? No Rickles! Maybe some Wrinkles, but No Rickles!
Lanman


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Re: [newbie] high pitched whine coming from new Maxtor!

2004-07-26 Thread mike


Angus Auld wrote:
 I seem to be getting a very annoying, and scary, high pitched 
 whining sound occasionally from my 3 week old Maxtor 40 GB 
 7200rpm drive.
 Should I back everything up now?! :-/
 
 My drive mounts in a vertical position. Could that cause a problem? 
 I could find no warnings against vertical mounting in the docs 
 that came with it.
 
 The noise comes and goes, and just started doing so the 
 past day or so. It has been working very well otherwise.
 
 I just found my purchase receipt.I may well need it.
 Anyone able to give me a prognosis? ;-)
 
 Regards.
 
 --Angus
 
I have 30GB maxtor 7200 it made the whine noise ocasionally also.
It died after a couple years, I still had their diagnostic floppy
that came with the drive and ran the test phoned in the code and
they sent me a new drive no charge except for return shipping on old
drive.

The new drive started making a noise also after a while, I read some
where about 7200rpm drives running hotter so I installed hddtemp
and checked it, running 55c so I seperated my drives (they were
stacked too close for one thing) and put a drive cooler on it and
now hddtemp reports 35c.

I don't know for sure if the noise was heat related for sure, but it
has been more quiet since I put a cooler on it.

You could try installing hddtemp and see what your temp is. I
believe its on the cd's.

Mike


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