Re: How do I mount under /run from /etc/fstab in 7.0/wheezy?

2014-05-05 Thread Jacob Anawalt
On Sat, May 3, 2014 at 3:53 AM, Andrei POPESCU andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote: On Vi, 02 mai 14, 12:33:12, Jacob Anawalt wrote: What is the best way to get my fstab mounts under /run to automatically mount on boot again? What are you actually trying to achieve? This feels a lot like the XY

How do I mount under /run from /etc/fstab in 7.0/wheezy?

2014-05-02 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Hi, For some time now and at least through all of Debian 6.0/squeeze I have had some mount points under what use to be /var/run. After upgrading to Debian 7.0/wheezy these mounts broke. I have come to conclude that this is due to a combination of the run directory release goal for 7.0 [0] and my

Re: mozilla mailcap

2004-02-29 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Execute command in an already running Mozilla process. For more info, see: http://www.mozilla.org/unix/remote.html -- Jacob Anawalt - Not on the list, following via news. - I apologize in advance for the missing muttish headers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: faster start

2004-02-29 Thread Jacob Anawalt
/runit/benefits.html [3] http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html [4] http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=4711 [5] http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus -- Jacob Anawalt - Not on the list, following via news. - I apologize in advance for the missing muttish headers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Netscape segmentation fault

2004-02-29 Thread Jacob Anawalt
all. Then re-install. -- Jacob Anawalt - Not on the list, following via news. - I apologize in advance for the missing muttish headers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: establish private network (no wires)

2004-02-29 Thread Jacob Anawalt
antennas that would work well vehicle mounted if the ISP's antenna was somewhere inside of the area. You've probably already looked into these options though. [1] http://www.aprs.net/ [2] http://www.arrl.org/hsmm/project.html -- Jacob Anawalt - Not on the list, following via news. - I apologize

Re: spamassassin

2004-02-27 Thread Jacob Anawalt
. Jacob Anawalt - Not on the list, following via news. - Apologize in advance about missing muttish headers -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: spamassassin

2004-02-27 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Jacob Anawalt wrote: James Ireson wrote: Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 12:58:41PM -, James Ireson wrote: Dselect is telling me that Spamassassin wants libc6 2.3.2-1 but all that's available is 2.2.5-11.5... Install a version backported to stable rather than trying

Re: recommendations sought for some MS-OS applications

2003-10-17 Thread Jacob Anawalt
DG wrote: I'm investigating a switch from MS-OS to *NIX. I've made a list of my MS-OS applications and I've found *NIX equivalents for most of them. Unfortunately, there are a few for which I have not been able to find replacements. Besides using google, which you may be doing already, try

Re: Web-based e-mail system?

2003-10-17 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Randy Orrison wrote: Aaron wrote: I currently use a fetchmail / procmail / mbox / mutt e-mail setup, with ssmtp (properly linked through `sendmail` of course) for sending. I would really like to have a web mail system set up so that I can at least read, if not send, e-mail from my website as

Re: How to manage services?

2003-10-17 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:43:45PM +0530, Sudeep Mukherjee wrote: I want to disable some services, e.g., Samba. What is the Debian way to do it? If you don't want them, why not uninstall them? That is of course often the best, except that I'm a pack-rat and think I'll play

Re: Trouble with Bind

2003-10-17 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Alan Chandler wrote: On Tuesday 07 October 2003 19:53, Alan Chandler wrote: What I have discovered is that using 10.0.10.100 to lookup an address on the external intenet times out. I presume it is therefore not forwarding the queries correctly. How can I debug what is happening. I tried using

Re: Howto not reject mail to Postmaster etc. in Exim4

2003-10-17 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: Thanks for the response! On Wednesday 08 October 2003 21:23, Philipp Weis wrote: This is certainly true for postmaster, but I think it would be RFC-compliant to reject viruses and spam on abuse or security. Yeah, I think so too. However, rejecting legitimate mail could

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-17 Thread Jacob Anawalt
John Hasler wrote: Naitik writes: I was wondering if there's some script/application that can bounce those, so I can do my part in annoying the spammer. You won't bother the spammer at all, but you will annoy the hell out of me and others whose domains the spammers forge. I know virii usually

Re: Tool to bounce mails

2003-10-17 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Thu, 09 Oct 2003 at 17:36 GMT, ScruLoose penned: And if you really want to start annoying spammers, go do a google search on teergrubing. This likewise only applies if you're running your own mailserver. Okay, I keep seeing this term, so I finally did look it up.

Re: mqueue question

2003-10-17 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Vivek Kumar wrote: Hi , Is there any problem is deleting all the mail queues from mqueue directory ?? I got lot of files in that directory. Also when i used mailq command I get a long list. When i do ps -ef | grep sendmail, I see few sendmail processes ends with email id and user open. I feel

Re: Exim4 ACL recipes

2003-10-17 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Steve Lamb wrote: Does anyone know of any sites out there that have some Exim4 ACL recipes? Google's starting to fail me ever since they return virtually nothing but mailing list discussions. :/ Sorry no sites because I don't know exactly what you're looking for. Googling with this query

Re: Reading Debian Documentation - Newbie ?

2003-10-17 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Fredderic wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 18:00:52 +0200, Kim Eik wrote: Have a file named, /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz How do I access and read this file? gunzip /usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.gz and then open de file created. apt-get install less instead of unpacking the

Re: exim exposed to the internet

2003-10-17 Thread Jacob Anawalt
David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, I had trouble with my ISPs mail server which was telling me that it wasn't going to relay mail for me. This is since friday, and still going on. [snip] Have you called your ISP? Is it the server (error message) or the people that are saying they won't relay for

Re: Decent browsers for Linux? Anything to replace IE?

2003-10-17 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 at 10:28 GMT, Joseph Jones penned: While I'm a huge Firebird fan, IE was better at some tasks (yes, they are non-standard HTML tasks, but what can you do when that's what the industry uses? *sigh*). I've tried Konqueror and found it lacking extremely

Re: Web-based e-mail system?

2003-10-17 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Joyce, Matthew wrote: [snip] Jacob Anawalt Wrote: I've played with SquirrelMail/IMAP for a few weeks and for a few users it's been just fine. Looking at the logs I do see that it's constantly re-connecting to the server with each page change (as is expected unless it could have some sort

Re: Microsoft-Fonts

2003-10-16 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Uwe Dippel wrote: Here are the paths: FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi/:unscaled FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/ FontPath /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo/

Re: reverting to ext2 (Was: Re: How to kill X?)

2003-10-12 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 11:09 GMT, Tim Connors penned: Not a case of ext3 being crap, a case of ext3 with journalled *data* being crap. Quite a nice allrounder with the other two ext3 options set. And you get the same problems with all other fses when their equivalent of

Re: install

2003-10-12 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Sidney Brooks wrote: I followed the instructions below. When I entered linux single at the boot prompt, I ended up with a blank screen and frozen computer. I might add, Debian potato didn't work for me in the graphical mode because it only accepted the lowest resolution, 640x400 (I think), and

Re: network visibility

2003-10-12 Thread Jacob Anawalt
ataraxia2500 wrote: I've just upgraded to sid, everything is working fine except my winxp box does not find my debian box on the network anymore though it used to find it before the dist-upgrade, maybe it installed stuffz that changed some confz on my debian machine. any idea what it might be?

Re: get rid of unstable and testing packages

2003-10-11 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Malte Negendank wrote: Hi all, I have, after unsuccessfully downgrading my system, just reinstalled my system, using apt-pinning. This, however, turned out to be less brilliant as it sounded at first, it just gave me loads of dependeny problems with some packages. I tried it too once, with

Re: freedom of debian

2003-10-11 Thread Jacob Anawalt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Jason Housewright wrote: [snip] Using Debian, is it fair to say that one has more freedom regarding the software installed...specifically, I mean that my experience with GNU/Linux thus far has been that if you want to install an upgraded version of

Re: install Apache problem under Debian 3.0 r1

2003-10-04 Thread Jacob Anawalt
tao lin wrote: Hi, all I am a newbie of Linux. Now I am using Debian 3.0 r1. When I try to use tasksel, and select web server to install, it return the follow error - == Since you only requested a single operation it is extremely likely that the

Re: Replace HDD

2003-10-04 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Joyce, Matthew wrote: Hi, I have an old pc running Debian Woody and I have 2 questions. Firstly, the hard drive ios quite old and become quite noisy, I suspect it is on the way out. What is the easiest way to replace it ? It only have 2 partions, one of them a swap. The new drive is slightly

Re: exim4 SSL/TLS client: refusal to verify certificate

2003-10-04 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Sebastian Kapfer wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2003 03:40:07 +0200, Vineet Kumar wrote: Perhaps it's failing because it can't verify a certificate chain from a trusted root certificate? You might need to grab the thawte CA cert and append it to your tlscerts.out. You are right. Exim doesn't even care

Re: Recommendations for donated machines

2003-10-04 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Kevin Mark wrote: Hello D-u's, I need a recommendation for some donated machines. Here are the specs: P I/75 32MB 2GB (may upgrade memory to 64/96MB) That is good, the more the merrier to help buffer your slow IDE disk. Of course the 33mhz (?) FSB isn't going to be a speed demon for even memory

Re: How do people remount /usr read-only after apt-get?

2003-10-04 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Malcolm Ferguson wrote: [snip] 2) This makes me wonder why we don't restart affected processes after applying security patches. For instance, today's OpenSSL patch seemed to affect ssh and bind. Well, I had to restart them as part of remount /usr ro. Presumably those processes were still

Re: New OpenSSL installed -- recompilation required?

2003-10-04 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Lukas Ruf wrote: Dear all, after I have installed the latest libssl, do I need to re-compile anything that makes use of libssl? Concrete examples for me are: - OpenSSH - Mod_SSL The reason I am asking for, on my server I have OpenSSH and Apache hand-tailored to fit our needs. However, for

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

2003-10-04 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Rich Johnson wrote: On Saturday, October 4, 2003, at 12:24 AM, Jacob Anawalt wrote: Everytime I think about this thread or any boast about uptime one question comes into my mind: Are these machines on trusted networks with trusted users, or do people really get lucky and pick or compile

Re: Virus-infected hosts list

2003-10-04 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] Tommorrow someone else will be assigned those same IPs and you'll be blocking them even if they were never vulnerable to begin with. If it's a problem, they email me, and I pull the IP. So you're just keeping a list of problem IP's and accepting additional

Re: Debian uptime 497 days

2003-10-03 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Tom wrote: On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:11:49PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya On Mon, 29 Sep 2003, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Kyle Loree ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030929 08:58]: the other system is at 486 days 16 hours 36 minutes, and I expect that it will do the rollover in another 11 days.

Re: xwindows

2003-10-03 Thread Jacob Anawalt
steef wrote: .hey out there, can somebody tell me how come: - installing woody_kernelvariant bf2.4; taskel does not give the possibility to install Xwindows a f t e r having installed debian security packages. so apt cannot get the Xwindowspackages from the (ftp) server. when i

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-10-02 Thread Jacob Anawalt
ScruLoose wrote: On Wed, Oct 01, 2003 at 07:56:07PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: What I am saying is -- IMHO -- especially in light of the problems that I have experienced with Swen, auto-executing virus/worms are only *part* of the problem. Social engineering is often scoffed at as a real

Re: yahoo wants to save cookies at /

2003-10-02 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 05:35:11PM +0300, Alphonse Ogulla wrote: | Unable to open mail.yahoo.com in konqueror as non root for the simple fact | that yahoo wants to dump some cookies at / (root) directory for which I have | no permissions. Anybody experience this

OT: Spam was Re: Spamassassin Configuration

2003-09-29 Thread Jacob Anawalt
ScruLoose wrote: As others have noted, virus traffic is not actually the same as spam-traffic, and you might want a particular tool for each job... To me they are both Spam. I did not ask to recieve either, and they are both attempting to fill the mailboxes of several users on the same

Re: Can't get eth0:0 subinterface

2003-09-28 Thread Jacob Anawalt
debian.1 wrote: Greetings: I'm a current Redhat user _trying_ to switch to debian. More under the hood differences than I expected :-( I need to add a static IP subintrface on eth0. I used to just add a file in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts corresponding to the new intrface and reboot. No

Re: Can't get eth0:0 subinterface

2003-09-28 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Scott Horton wrote: snip What does one have to do to add a sub interface? This is a freshly installed and updated Woody system. This was the first settign I tried to change. PITB. Thanks very much for the time to help, Things are definatly different in many places. I

Re: bind has quit working

2003-09-28 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Jeff Elkins wrote: On Saturday 27 September 2003 9:10 am, Jeff Elkins wrote: What is a missing ptr? OK, to named.conf I added: zone 192.in-addr.arpa { type master; file /etc/bind/db.192; }; A minor note, I'd write db.192 as db.192.168.0, so that if you have another

Re: [OT] kernel 2.4.22 local APIC errors

2003-09-28 Thread Jacob Anawalt
David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, I compiled linux 2.4.22 from kernel-source-2.4.22 and now my logs are flooded with these errors: Sep 27 15:32:24 orion kernel: APIC error on CPU0: 40(40) Sep 27 15:32:52 orion last message repeated 45 times ... Lots of people were getting this error. Try searching

Lindows was Re: This might be a darned fine Knoppix station

2003-09-27 Thread Jacob Anawalt
martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Martin Jungowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.09.26.0032 +0200]: While we're on that subject, does anyone in here have any Lindows experience? I remember that several years ago when it was first announced, there was rumors about a 100% MS Windows compatible Linux

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-27 Thread Jacob Anawalt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 27 Sep 2003, Pim Bliek wrote: I get the virii with 3 different content-types: application/x-msdownload,audio/x-wav,audio/x-mid so, just exe doesnt seem to cover it. But how do you filter them out using postfix? Pim I was commenting that you can

OT: Using a mic in Windoze Re: problen

2003-09-27 Thread Jacob Anawalt
jay wrote: hi i have a on board sound card a ac97 on my msi 865pe neo2 board running home xp the problem is thst the head phones and mic work in all on board tests and also on msn mess test all scales move up and down but and this is the big but i can hear other people talk to me but they

Re: backup to dvd of apple files

2003-09-27 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Rudy Gevaert wrote: Hello, I have recently inherited a (voluntary) sysadminjob. We have a fileserver where Macs and Windows clients can connect to. On the fileserver I use netatalk and samba. I have about 10 gig of data on it and I want to dump that data to a DVD. I have found someone who

Re: Allowing any user to shutdown from gnome (gdmconfig show system menu)

2003-09-27 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Ben Edwards wrote: Is there a way of allowing any user to shutdown. Idealy from the taskbar (but I guess in this case it's simply a case of writing a short script and calling it from the taksbar. Ben Have a look to /etc/X11/gdm/gdm.conf Also accessable as su -c

Re: Problems getting security updates?

2003-09-27 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Chuck Mattern wrote: Possibly a newbie issue here but the lines: deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0r1 Update CD 20030109: i386]/ woody contrib main non-US/contrib non-US/main non-US/non-free non-free deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1 _Woody_ - Official i386 Binary-7 (20021218)]/ unstable contrib

Re: Question on GPG

2003-09-27 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Roberto Sanchez wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just started playing with GPG today. Can't you tell? :-) Anyhow. I generated bunches of keys trying to get Enigmail to play nice with Thunderbird and also with gpg on the command line. When I finally got around to the part

Re: Multi-user Debian

2003-09-27 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Roberto Sanchez wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: |This has got to be the best idea since Linux and |Debian... | |Hurry! Patent it! ;-) | | | Too late. Multiuser-DOS schemes using this kind of technology | was popular back in the mid-80s. | I don't believe

Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?

2003-09-26 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Xavier Andrade said: On Fri, 26 Sep 2003, Clive Menzies wrote: [...] Can't say I agree here ;( I don't actually track the numbers (haven't yet managed to implement a filtering solution) but I must have deleted well over 100 today I'm using this in my procmailrc: :0 B *

Re: Windows multiboot (aaargh!)

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
cr said: On Friday 19 September 2003 21:12, cr wrote: (DOS / Win95 / Win98 install) Next step, see if I can boot the whole thing with GRUB cr Progress report... :) The 'rgh' was prophetic Well, it all booted happily with Grub while it was Drive 1 in my spare PC. So I

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Bob McElrath said: Wayne Gemmell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Walt L. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming is increasing exponentially. I recieved 10Mb of mail over the

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses (forpostfix mail admins)

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
daniel said: I found a nice web page which can give postfix mail admins some nice tips to block most incoming spam/mail bombs. I added most of the checking described in this url plus a 100Kb mail limit since nobody sends me more than that. Before I could be receiving 10 spam and/or mail

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
ScruLoose said: On Wed, Sep 24, 2003 at 09:33:56PM -0400, ScruLoose wrote: On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 03:54:08PM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: I've heard that using html encoding for the @ symbol on webpages will reduce harvesting ... it still shows up properly in mail clients when the

Re: fetchmail and mailfilter

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] said: On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Ross Boylan wrote: Sorry, forgot one other point. Another potential issue I see is that if mailfilter causes the messages to be marked as seen, fetchmail may not retrieve them in at least some modes. I am confused. Does mailfilter only do a

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Bob McElrath said: Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess that's as effective for reducing the bulk of your inbox as sending 550 executables not accepted, especially if you don't have control over the mail server and you match this virus with 100% accuracy. Either way, /dev/null

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Bob McElrath said: Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob McElrath said: Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I guess that's as effective for reducing the bulk of your inbox as sending 550 executables not accepted, especially if you don't have control over the mail server

Re: Verislime

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Stephen Patterson said: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 05:00:18 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyone care to calculate how many domains that would be? ;) Given that they're using IP4 addressing, anything up to 4 billion (less currently assigned hosts). I'm defiantly not a mathematician or a

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Kirk Strauser said: At 2003-09-23T21:16:02Z, Ray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: perhaps if someone wrote the don't f*$ open me[1] virus and had it go through a little tutorial about why not to open unknow attachments have message go something like I was foolish enough to open the attachment, and

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Bob McElrath said: Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob McElrath said: Darn, I was hoping (aren't we all) for a way to reject it before the whole thing is sent. You know...it wouldn't be hard to scan the input for the EXE header and close the connection as soon as it's seen

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Karsten M. Self said: on Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 07:03:47PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: There's a company that provides this service. First time emails to you get an auto-response You aren't authorized to send me email, visit this web page to get authorized or something

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-25 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Jacob Anawalt said: [snip] One major concern that I've lightly touched on and will bring up again is “What if I want to have other people contact me off list?” You wouldn't want to post your non-list-only email to the list, that would be counter-productive. There's got to be a convenient way

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-24 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Arnt Karlsen said: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 22:06:19 -0600, Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:16:38 -0600 (MDT), Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Compare this to the dog

Re: S.M.A.R.T. messages - what do they mean

2003-09-24 Thread Jacob Anawalt
René Seindal said: I just got these messages from smartmontools on my laptop. I checked the logs because the disk make a weird sound. Device: /dev/hda, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 193 Load_Cycle_Count. Device: /dev/hda, Failed SMART usage Attribute: 193 Load_Cycle_Count. Device:

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian?

2003-09-24 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Kevin McKinley said: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:21:55 -0600 Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Now you have me interested. Do you already have a script to mirror only stable and unstable with rsync? I think I would try only mirroring stable with such a script, but I thought it would take

Re: Sudden increase in size of Debian (Mirror)?

2003-09-24 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Kevin McKinley said: On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 00:00:23 -0600 Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Your list has the virtue of being much simpler; I wonder what 5 Gb I have that you don't? I'm not sure, what does this command return on your system? find pool/ -name *deb | egrep -v '_i386

Re: Proper SMTP server setup - was Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvestedemail addresses

2003-09-24 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Daniel L. Miller said: Jacob Anawalt wrote: Doesn't some spam come directly from an individual running SMTP from their box to yours? I'm pretty sure this is the case for the W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s email spreading methods. I have exactly this configuration. Our e-mail is hosted off

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-23 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Ron Johnson said: On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 02:54, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:22, Steve Lamb wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:08:42 -0600 Walt L. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone else out there being mail

Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-23 Thread Jacob Anawalt
To me the big question is how do I avoid the spam in the first place, besides avoiding email all together? I want to participate on the web, I just don't want so much junk email nor do I want to have my mailbox or ISP suffering from gigabytes of worm attachments or advertising data. We've all

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-23 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Jeronimo Pellegrini said: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 01:16:38PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: [snip] The mail server would need to have access to my personal list of acceptable email addresses so it could give a 550 with the appropriate extended SMTP code for unauthorized/security

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-23 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Jeronimo Pellegrini said: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 01:16:38PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: I've already mentioned the web authorization idea and the rotate your email address on some schedule ideas in another thread. I've even seen a web site go so far as to use a .js file function to put

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-23 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Rich Puhek said: (my reply is a bit disjointed, since I put things inline, and jumped around while crafting my response...sorry for the nonlinear thinking pattern) 'sOK. I thought you had some good points. Thanks for the input. Inline is just right for me. Jacob Anawalt wrote: To me

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-23 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Jeronimo Pellegrini said: [snip] Make the list server PGP-sign the messages, maybe? You install the list server key once, and never worry about it again? If some small PGP/GPG data could be sent as part of a new EHLO syntax command then OK, otherwise I'm in the DATA section again. It

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-23 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Ray said: On Tuesday 23 September 2003 15:12, Jacob Anawalt wrote: Jeronimo Pellegrini said: On Tue, Sep 23, 2003 at 01:16:38PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: [snip] The latest churn on debian-user about Spam hasn't been UCE spam. It's been worm spam. I don't know anyone personally who likes

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-23 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Steve Lamb wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 02:26:42 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And wasn't there a big, long thread last month where most in the thread excoriated C-R? Yup. Which goes to show that these people clearly didn't read it, don't care, or are just plain stupid. I

Re: Anti-Spam ideas for usenet/list harvested email addresses

2003-09-23 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 13:16:38 -0600 (MDT), Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Compare this to the dog chasing cars method of inventing a new filter rule that looks through the MIME data to decide if this is the latest worm you don't want

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-23 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Steve Lamb wrote: On Tue, 23 Sep 2003 21:59:00 -0600 Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe they gave up early on it due to content. I just forced myself to drudge through the whole of it. Lots of good ideas and reasons to not use C-R* from the I'll take it all to not miss one email

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-22 Thread Jacob Anawalt
daniel said: Wayne Gemmell wrote: [snip] I can't see any solution to this. Downloading this amount of mail during the day would cost me a fortune *sniff* Maybe it sounds drastic but I even thought of making some type of acl of who can send me e-mail and deny the rest with a msg of If you

Re: install

2003-09-22 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Kent West wrote: Sidney Brooks wrote: 2) I have Windows XP, Mandrake, Redhat, and Debian partitions. Everything but Debian works. The boot loader is Mandrake lilo. HOWEVER, I CANNOT TAKE LILO OUT. In what may or may not be a That's right, you don't take it out you need to overwrite it with

Re: named complaining about lame servers when resolving

2003-09-22 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Malcolm Ferguson wrote: Hi, I've tried to configure bind on my Woody box as a caching DNS server for a segment of the network. However, after mistyping an IP address that I was trying to resolve elsewhere I'm now getting lots of messages in the log file complaining about a lame server.

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-21 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Michael C. wrote: In linux.debian.user, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 00:22, Steve Lamb wrote: On Fri, 19 Sep 2003 23:08:42 -0600 Walt L. Williams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails that look like there

Re: Help w/http default Woody install, Squirrelmail, defaults

2003-09-21 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Scott Ehrlich wrote: I installed a Woody system on my Intel box with an HTTP installation from debina.lcs.mit.edu. I wanted squirrelmail, so I installed apache-ssl, then squirrelmail, all via apt-get, and squirrelmail magically worked fine. After a couple weeks of perfect operation, I opt to add

Re: spam filtering

2003-09-21 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Gerard Ceraso wrote: I am currently using procmail and spamassassin and I heard that razor is better. Any opinions? Gerard http://devslash.org Razor can be used in procmail recipes (which I do) or in SpamAssassin. If you like what you've read about razor, you can use it in

Re: Problems with a Fresh install of Sarge

2003-09-20 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Christopher L. Everett wrote: I've got Sarge installed, with a 2.6.0-test4 kernel installed, and although everything is pretty much OK, minor annoyances remain: 1) Both Mozilla and the Firebird browser packs up at randomly: so far the only consistency is that but only when I'm moving the mouse

Re: realteck RTL 8193c module problem

2003-09-20 Thread Jacob Anawalt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What is the output of lsmod? Did you insmod or added module name to /etc/modules ? Hi, the output of lsmod is no 8139too. the /etc/modules has 8139too in it the insmod said /lib/modules/2.4.20/kernel/drivers/net/8139too.o:unresolved symbol

Re: NAT

2003-09-20 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Ashish Ariga wrote: On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 18:00, Adrian Berardi wrote: Hi, i'm a new debian user, and without too much experience in linux. I'm trying to install a Debian here at home to use it as internet access for a couple windows PCs. Someone told me that i had to install first the two

Re: apt-get and gzipped Package list files

2003-09-20 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Antti Peltonen wrote: Hi, Our companys proxy server is pain in the ass.. all web access _must_ go thru it and on some really mind boglingly stupid reason it decompresses Gzipped files as default. And suprise suprise the maintaince crew is unwilling to change this behaviour. Because of this

Re: Insert module at startup

2003-09-20 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 06:09:21PM -0600, Jacob Anawalt wrote: | | Greg Folkert said: | | People read. Please change this | consequences. Like break they way | top posting has some very annoying | In regard to top posting | | I agree with you 100%. I think

Re: ssh + X11

2003-09-19 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Arnt Karlsen said: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 17:30:11 -0600 (MDT), Jacob Anawalt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [snip] no X11Forwarding as in the line isn't in the file, or as in: X11Forwarding no ..the latter, I found one of my boxes having yes. I'm glad it's all

Re: Sieve script to filter today's MS annoyances

2003-09-19 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Kirk Strauser said: At 2003-09-19T16:41:51Z, Arnt Karlsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ..hmmm, cool. And in .procmailrc'ese it is? No. In Sieve-ese it is. See RFC 3028 for details. ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3028.txt This RFC doesn't say I have to use Sieve, just that they've

EveryBuddy questions (MS update and others)

2003-09-19 Thread Jacob Anawalt
I've been using EveryBuddy on Debian and RH for at least a year now. The past couple weeks I've been getting the MSN Security Team message You need to update or won't be able to use this service or something to that effect. Trillian use to get the same message but today I downloaded their

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-19 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Walt L. Williams wrote: Is there anyone else out there being mail bombed with emails that look like there from M$? The rate at which their coming is increasing exponentially. Any suggestions on how to make it stop. I believe you are seeing the work of Win32.Swen.A

Re: lilo problem

2003-09-18 Thread Jacob Anawalt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the help everyone, especially Michael. With your help I managed to get it working :) On Wed, 2003-09-17 at 15:03, Michael Bellears wrote: Ensure that /vmlinuz exists. It does on /dev/hdc8 Please show the output of mount. Cool, now that

Re: Weird network behaviour - can anyone explain it?

2003-09-18 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Oliver Elphick wrote: We have a machine whose network configuration is in some way wrong, but I don't know how. When it boots, the network is configured correctly, according to ifconfig, but it takes forever for things (a deliberately vague word) to be processed. Then it seems to handle a number

Re: ssh + X11

2003-09-18 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Arnt Karlsen said: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:16:59 +0100, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 03:06:54PM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 11:42:32 +0100, Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:

Re: Moz Firebird

2003-09-18 Thread Jacob Anawalt
tvn said: On Thu, 18 Sep 2003 14:15:08 +0700 Oki DZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, Have you stumbled upon the text fields that wouldn't accept any input? (ie: no keystroke accepted, but the mouse works). It happens to me, on Mozilla snapshot and also the recent Firebird. Oki Yes,

Re: Security updates vs. Sarge and Sid??

2003-09-18 Thread Jacob Anawalt
Lou Losee said: The posts that arrive from the Debian Security list show package updates for Woody. How does one ensure that these same updates are applied when running a mixed system (testing stable)? As long as there aren't people working to put security updates into testing, you won't

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