Re: SpamAssassin rules problems (was Re: SpamBouncer)

2002-02-09 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> It only seems to catch about 60% of the spam that gets past my other >> filters. (ordb, osirusoft, blarsbl, valid rDNS of relay, valid domain >> in envelope from) (These catch about 90% of the spam, and an occasional >> valid email.) > >T

Re: SpamBouncer

2002-02-08 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >However, I do beleive that if a site is allowing spam to be relayed, it should >be made well aware of how unpopulat that is. Yes, but I didn't think that was what spambouncer did. Does it only send messages back to valid relays that aren'

SpamAssassin rules problems (was Re: SpamBouncer)

2002-02-08 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [spamassassin] >| The default rule scoring seems pretty far off to me though. >Can you expand on this? (These comments are based on the few dozen mainly spam messages I've fed to "spamassassin -t", and some reading of the spamassassin mailin

Re: SpamBouncer

2002-02-07 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >On Thu, Feb 07, 2002 at 10:52:03AM -0500, stan wrote: >| Anyone know if SpamBouncer www.spambouncer.org is being mainatined? >dunno Me neither. Since what it does is bombard the victim the spammer forged in the headers, hopfully it's dead

Re: Patititioning hard drive

2002-01-05 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Hmm. More like 5MB for /boot If you are going to install a stock initrd 2.4 kernel, that's over 5MB per installed kernel. I'd recommend at least 18MB in /boot to allow three at time. (I made the mistake of to small /boot on one of my sy

Re: installing woody -- base*.tgz?

2001-11-06 Thread Blars Blarson
e. I just configured my ethernet (the 3c509, the 3c905 still isn't being recognized by that system) and hand-edited the sources.list so I could use my local server. >as I'd need to have pppoe running before I can acess the My dsl doesn't use pppoe, and the installed system is

Re: [debian-user] still floundering -> PSEUDO-IMAGE

2001-11-02 Thread Blars Blarson
/ has them, other places can be found on the debian.org web site if you lie about how you will be doing the install. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patri

Re: Recording CD's (data)

2001-11-02 Thread Blars Blarson
do that is in the howto. You also need scsi-generic support. (But scanbus doesn't, so that's not your problem.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: "Daddy, something's wrong with the filesystem..."

2001-10-28 Thread Blars Blarson
S used to reserve 10%, but 2% or 3% is more common nowdays. See the tune2fs man page for how to change this ammount. Go ahead and use this space if you need to, but if your system performance degrades you know what is causing it. -- Blars Blarson [EMA

Re: How to know whether a package is obsolete?

2001-10-26 Thread Blars Blarson
ow of is modutils, and a few people got it after I mentioned it on this mailing list. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: [ot] Chmods for phpNuke...

2001-10-24 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >This is more of a linux question... Is there a way to change recursivly >the mode to directories only? find . -type d -print0 | xargs -0 chmod a=rwx -- Blars Blarson [EMA

Re: Failing installing kernel-image-2.4.10 under woody

2001-10-24 Thread Blars Blarson
bian woody? > >Vittorio > >Blars Blarson [debian-user] <24/10/01 02:01 -0700>: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >depmod: Unexpected value (20) in >> >'/lib/modules/2.4.10-586/kernel/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for &g

Re: Failing installing kernel-image-2.4.10 under woody

2001-10-24 Thread Blars Blarson
tp://bleep.blars.org/debian/dists/testing/main/binary-i386/base/modutils_2.4.8-1.deb (It's no longer in testing.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: debian hangs during boot (at fsck stage)

2001-10-21 Thread Blars Blarson
tion does not prompt. Add "prompt" and possbily timeout to your /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo. See the lilo.conf man page for details. Acording to the lilo man page, it should be posibly to get a prompt by hitting shift at the proper moment. I've

Re: Convert MAC to IP

2001-10-19 Thread Blars Blarson
ell script to parse it would be pretty easy. Of course, this only applies to your local network segment, and I'm assuming you arn't realy looking for your dhcpd configuration. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www

Re: Remove a half-configured package on Potato/Progeny/Testing...

2001-10-19 Thread Blars Blarson
If others are experincing this problem, a bug should be submitted. (use reportbug) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: modutils won't install on testing

2001-10-16 Thread Blars Blarson
/drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.o' for >ieee1394_device_size Known bug. The modutils package maintainer reduced the severity from grave to important, so the broken version made it into testing. modutils 2.4.8-1 does not have this problem. If it's not in the ususal places, I can make in ava

bug priority -- uninstallable modutils now in testing

2001-10-16 Thread Blars Blarson
sting? Fortunatly I had a copy of 2.4.8-1 to install, which fixed the problem. Without it I may have been left with an unusable system. (The bug seems to have been reported multiple times on multiple kernels.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROT

Re: NIS/NFS alternatives? - dhcp

2001-10-07 Thread Blars Blarson
the MAC in battery-backup ram, and used the same address for all ethernet cards in the system. (Which was correct in the original ethernet spec, but doesn't work well with VLAN-capable switches.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xserver-xfree86 install problem (debian-testing)

2001-10-07 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >On Sun, Oct 07, 2001 at 10:57:03AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: >> I've got a system where I've recently installed potato and then >> upgraded to testing. ... >> "subprocess post-installa

xserver-xfree86 install problem (debian-testing)

2001-10-07 Thread Blars Blarson
how to fix it, or at least some help figuring out what's wrong? -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: How to fix device asignment oredre?

2001-10-06 Thread Blars Blarson
hink the driver scanning order determines it. This should be consistant, but what order is used is not obvious. It may even be affected by the presense/absence of other cards in other slots. On my system with a 3c905b card and a 3c905? on the motherboard, the motherboard is eth1. --

Re: IMAP server?

2001-09-29 Thread Blars Blarson
html Sending mail direct from a dialup is a trick many spammers have used to bypass thier ISPs spam filters and many ISPs ignore complaints sent about mail from thier dialups. You'll need to find a relay that will accept your mail (and not everyones mail)

Re: bug reporting about conflicts in sid

2001-09-29 Thread Blars Blarson
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 09:41:09AM -0700, Blars Blarson wrote: >> After getting sid successfully installed, I ran dselect to install the >> rest of the packages I wanted. There are a few complaints about >> recomended packag

bug reporting about conflicts in sid

2001-09-28 Thread Blars Blarson
g in xpm4g about conflicting with xlib 3. report a bug in dselect -- it shouldn't treat "recomends" as "requires" if it makes packages uninstallable. "apt-get install olvwm" did work. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http:/

Re: The joys of Debian unstable

2001-09-28 Thread Blars Blarson
ork) and rebuild the account information. I can't claim to be a mysql expert, but have you tried stoping mysqld and restarting it with -Sg? (It seems to be an option designed for the real root user to get around a forgotten password.) -- Blars Blarson

Re: dselect

2001-09-23 Thread Blars Blarson
ee Mount the remote cdrom using NFS, and use a file: uri -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: Dual Serial port

2001-09-18 Thread Blars Blarson
d A/B.) Many PCs use dual or quad serial chips, but they wire the ports to different connectors (or leave them unwired). -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html "Text is a way we cheat time." -- Patrick Nielsen Hayden

Re: tar copying problems for "/" to "/mnt"

2001-09-15 Thread Blars Blarson
/mnt/mnt The -l option is one way to avoid this problem. (It may even be why you get the timestamp error -- the modified time of /mnt will be after the tar started.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.h

Re: scsi scanner not found by xsane?

2001-08-29 Thread Blars Blarson
, and installed it in /usr/local. People with more debian experince might be able to tell you how to get the woody or sid version to work with your potato system. -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.blars.org/blars.html &q

Getting sound to work on Dell Dimension XPS R400

2001-08-26 Thread Blars Blarson
roller and both ethernet boards on it as well. (Is there any way to control PCI interrupt assignment -- this seems sub-optimal. My ethernet gets a lot more traffic than my SCSI tape drive.) -- Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Exim behind dhcp/ipmasq

2001-08-19 Thread Blars Blarson
ul/> or another list of dynamic IP addresses, and dissallow SMTP connections from systems on the list. Use your ISP's mail relay. This would normally return a permenent (5xx) error. My mail server filters on all of the above, and more too. -- Blars Blarson