Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-29 Thread Joey Hess
Ronny Adsetts wrote: The original poster is simply not keeping his queue clean of frozen messages. Shouldn't that be the MTA's job? I never understood why exim has such brain-dead defaults as requring an admin to manually deal with frozen messages. Every other MTA I have ever used has not even

Re: Why doesn't Exim ever clean out /var/spool/exim/input?

2004-01-29 Thread Joey Hess
Ronny Adsetts wrote: The original poster is simply not keeping his queue clean of frozen messages. Shouldn't that be the MTA's job? I never understood why exim has such brain-dead defaults as requring an admin to manually deal with frozen messages. Every other MTA I have ever used has not even

Re: AOL testing new anti-spam technology

2004-01-24 Thread Joey Hess
Russell Coker wrote: I've just implemented it the DNS for my domain. It was easy enough to do, and doesn't seem to have any great issues. No mail from me has been blocked yet. Do beware of the .forward issue. The next thing is to make my mail server check such records before receiving

Re: AOL testing new anti-spam technology

2004-01-24 Thread Joey Hess
Russell Coker wrote: I've just implemented it the DNS for my domain. It was easy enough to do, and doesn't seem to have any great issues. No mail from me has been blocked yet. Do beware of the .forward issue. The next thing is to make my mail server check such records before receiving

Re: APT needs /var/lib/dpkg/

2003-08-09 Thread Joey Hess
Markus Kolb wrote: I want to use APT (apt-get and apt-cache) for some repository games as a backend-tool. Of course as non-root user. Is there a possibility to tell apt-get and apt-cache to not look for status-file and lock-file in /var/lib/dpkg/ instead in some other directory? Yes, the

Re: reinstall slapd

2003-05-15 Thread Joey Hess
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've discovered a unique bug, I think. I ran dpkg-reconfigure debconf, and selected readline, instead of dialog, and now it's prompting for the admin password. Sheesh. All that time wasted... Sorry -- the sad fact is that the version of whiptail in debian unstable

Re: Which webmail do you prefer? Why?

2003-05-07 Thread Joey Hess
Jeremy Zawodny wrote: Why does the implementation language matter? Do you care if your system binaries are written in C vs C++? Not at all, unless the implementation language causes limitations. I looked at SquirrelMail, but php4 is not supported with apache2. It also looked painful to get

Re: Slow list.. why ?

2003-05-02 Thread Joey Hess
Maarten van der Hoef wrote: Every day I see multiple replies with the same suggestions just because the repliers weren't able to see the latest reply. As hardware costs about null these days, I wouldn't know any other bottleneck (bandwidth, nehh ). So what's the problem with this list ?

Re: BIND 8 vulnerability

2002-11-20 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Lim wrote: Do you know when Debian is going to get the BIND 8 patch (or BIND 8.3.4) for that recent vulnerability? We already did, 6 days ago: http://www.debian.org/security/2002/dsa-196 Looks like the security server is down? It was in a building that burnt to the ground today.

Re: LSB and Debian, Commercial perspective

2002-10-11 Thread Joey Hess
Marcel Hicking wrote: Does the LSB _force_ Debian to use rpm? If not, great! Both LSB certification AND dpkg/apt would be perfect. Again, please read the README.Debian in Debian's lsb package. For example: The alien package supports LSB packages on Debian. For example, to install an LSB

Re: LSB and Debian, Commercial perspective

2002-10-11 Thread Joey Hess
Marcel Hicking wrote: Does the LSB _force_ Debian to use rpm? If not, great! Both LSB certification AND dpkg/apt would be perfect. Again, please read the README.Debian in Debian's lsb package. For example: The alien package supports LSB packages on Debian. For example, to install an LSB

Re: LSB and Debian, Commercial perspective

2002-10-09 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Lim wrote: What are your thoughts on this? I think you should perhaps apt-get install lsb and read the README.Debian. -- see shy jo msg06915/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: LSB and Debian, Commercial perspective

2002-10-09 Thread Joey Hess
Jason Lim wrote: What are your thoughts on this? I think you should perhaps apt-get install lsb and read the README.Debian. -- see shy jo pgpPkJHH0DwYE.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Boarding SuSE with Debian

2002-08-07 Thread Joey Hess
Florian Bantner wrote: Ahoy friendly Debian fellows, my mission is following: Have rented a cheap server from an cheap hoster for a customer of ours. Only drawback: It is running suse linux. Since the provider is so cheap, he tells us: Do with the server what you want. And so I want Debian

Re: Hacker Script Attempt

2001-10-05 Thread Joey Hess
Gene Grimm wrote: The following message was received by our admin account after finding an intrusion (followed by rotating shell account passwords). Can anyone tell me how to find out what devices are referenced in this message? - Original Message - User 501 tried to run dev 773

Re: answered my own analog question

2001-07-16 Thread Joey Hess
Allen Ahoffman wrote: To answer my own question see this from the www.niccx.com hidden link home page. Hope the analog.cx site will move to .org or some such. I missed your question, but while the analog.cx site is down, http://analog.sourceforge.net works as a mirror. -- see shy jo --

Re: sendmail is slow for mass mail

2001-04-06 Thread Joey Hess
Craig Sanders wrote: i see qmail's incompatibility with other MTAs as a huge trap - and the same kind of trap as proprietary mailers, or proprietary software in generalonce you convert to it, you're basically stuck there because it's going to be an enormous pain to convert to anything

Re: PAM (?) and anonymous CVS with SSH problem (Was: Problem accessing your CVS repo of Java Autoconf macros

2000-06-19 Thread Joey Hess
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: It worked in 'slink' and fails with 'potato' It works in potato with me, I never even used it in slink. Are you using openssh, or what? -- see shy jo

Re: ORBS not blocking, but logged in headers

2000-05-18 Thread Joey Hess
Tommi Virtanen wrote: Actually, I'd really want to know how to configure Postfix to add a header for each blocking service checked: X-Maybe-Spam-RBL: [the text from the TXT record here] X-Maybe-Spam-ORBS: [the text from the TXT record here] X-Maybe-Spam-DUL: [the text from the