webmail for low-end VPS

2007-09-30 Thread John K Masters
Can anyone recommend a webmail app suitable for a low-end VPS. I already have Postfix/Courier setup. It looks like I have three choices: 1. Squirrelmail 2. Roundcube 3. Imp4/Horde I have used squirrelmail before and was not impressed but have heard that Imp4 is resource hungry. That leaves Roundc

entropy gathering module

2007-09-29 Thread John K Masters
Just configured a new VPS and when I try to get mail for the user (as opposed to root) I get 'no entropy gathering module detected' as a fatal error. If I run 'mail' as root there are no errors (and no mail) I've googled for this but the few results yeild no solutions except to point to a permissi

Re: Sex spam again on the list

2007-09-19 Thread John K Masters
On 18:12 Sun 09 Sep , Mumia W.. wrote: > On 09/09/2007 03:08 PM, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: >> [...] >> A thing every user can do is to bounce spam delivered to the lists to >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] Best you use mutt's bounce-function or >> Kmails redirect function for that, so the headers don't get

Re: SA-learn on remote host

2007-09-16 Thread John K Masters
On 17:22 Fri 14 Sep , Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:23:16PM +0100, John K Masters wrote: > > I am gradually implementing a mail system where I have a mail-server on > > host1 running Postfix/Courier/Procmail/spamc which passes all except > >

Re: syslogs not rotated - cron.daily never run because computer never up at 6:25am?

2007-09-16 Thread John K Masters
On 16:56 Sun 16 Sep , Malte Forkel wrote: > The root partition of a machine running Debian Etch has filled up because > log files like /var/log/syslog are not rotated and have become huge. > > As far as I understand, the script that rotates the system logs is > /etc/cron.daily/sysklogd, which

Re: SA-learn on remote host

2007-09-15 Thread John K Masters
On 08:22 Sat 15 Sep , Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Fri, Sep 14, 2007 at 09:23:16PM +0100, John K Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > I am gradually implementing a mail system where I have a mail-server on > > host1 running Postfix/Courier/Procmail/spamc

SA-learn on remote host

2007-09-14 Thread John K Masters
I am gradually implementing a mail system where I have a mail-server on host1 running Postfix/Courier/Procmail/spamc which passes all except whitelisted mail to spamd on another server - host2. host2 simply runs the mail through SA and passes it back to host1 from which I read on my local box via M

Stumble Upon

2007-08-25 Thread John K Masters
May be coincidence but I recently signed up to Stumble Upon with Iceweasel mainly in response to a post that had problems signing up. Since I signed up the address I used has seen an increase in spam from average of 1 per month to 5 per day and increasing. I have now cancelled my Stumble Upon sub b

Re: vim & kde questions

2007-08-14 Thread John K Masters
On 21:19 Tue 14 Aug , John K Masters wrote: > On 14:44 Tue 14 Aug , Mark Neidorff wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > After using another distribution for over 12 years, I've decided to give > > Debian Etch a good try. I've now got the luxury of having a se

Re: vim & kde questions

2007-08-14 Thread John K Masters
On 14:44 Tue 14 Aug , Mark Neidorff wrote: > Hi all, > > After using another distribution for over 12 years, I've decided to give > Debian Etch a good try. I've now got the luxury of having a second computer > to try things on, so I've installed Debian on that and hope to move > everything

Re: Reboot loses LAN connection

2007-08-11 Thread John K Masters
On 14:45 Sat 11 Aug , Kent West wrote: > John K Masters wrote: >> Strange behaviour on my laptop. Not sure if it's hardware or OS. Running >> unstable and apart from a couple of problems (solved) all has been well >> until about 4 days ago. Since then if I rebo

Reboot loses LAN connection

2007-08-11 Thread John K Masters
Strange behaviour on my laptop. Not sure if it's hardware or OS. Running unstable and apart from a couple of problems (solved) all has been well until about 4 days ago. Since then if I reboot or shutdown and do not disconnect the power, either by switching off at the mains or physically disconnect

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread John K Masters
On 22:49 Thu 09 Aug , Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: >> Per olof Ljungmark([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > bash: apr-cache: command not found ^^^ Typo - should be apt-cache. Probably worth reading up on Debian basics, maybe run "apt-get install apt-howto

Re: Any suggestions on good CLI newsreaders?

2007-08-06 Thread John K Masters
On 18:09 Mon 06 Aug , Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > That's a different beast - by asking for a newsreader, you got > > recommendations for usenet newsreaders... > > You are right. I actually meant RSS newsreaders. Thank you for clearing it up. > > Amit > Ah, now I see what you're after.

Re: Any suggestions on good CLI newsreaders?

2007-08-06 Thread John K Masters
On 17:39 Mon 06 Aug , Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > John Hasler debian.org> writes: > > > > > Amit writes: > > > Any of you use newsreaders from the commandline. > > > > I doubt anyone uses a command-line newsreader but many use text-only > > newsreaders such as slrn and trn. I use gnus, whi

Filling /var

2007-07-21 Thread John K Masters
Just had a bit of a wake-up call. Am running SID on my laptop and getting several updates per day. Today after updating the update process did not end properly as the /var partition had filled to 100%. In fact this totally stuffed my whole setup. Using GParted from a LiveCD I gave /var some more s

Re: Upgrade on box not on Net

2007-07-09 Thread John K Masters
On 16:02 Thu 05 Jul , Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 5 Jul 2007 20:25:09 +0100 > John K Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is it possible to upgrade a box not connected to the Internet? > > > > I run etch on my home desktop and sid on my laptop but I have

Re: tell ipod a recording is an 'audiobook'?

2007-07-09 Thread John K Masters
On 11:15 Mon 09 Jul , David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Jul 5, 2007, at 8:22 PM, Matt Price wrote: > >i'd like to convince the ipod that these tracks are not music > >but audiobooks (whatever that really means). > > > >does anyone know how to do this? if it can be done from amarok that's > >great,

Upgrade on box not on Net

2007-07-05 Thread John K Masters
Is it possible to upgrade a box not connected to the Internet? I run etch on my home desktop and sid on my laptop but I have a machine at work that is not, and never likely to be, connected to the internet. It currently has etch installed off the 3 DVD set which I downloaded via jigdo. I know I ca

Re: How to get Stumble Upon to work with Iceweasel, Any tips?

2007-06-28 Thread John K Masters
On 11:50 Thu 28 Jun , John W. Foster wrote: > I like the Mozilla extension Stumble Upon. How is it possible to get it > working with Iceweasel. According to what I have read, Iceweasel is basically > Firefox (for Debian), & Stumble Upon should install as an extension. When I > recently upgra

Re: Connect to DOS box

2007-06-22 Thread John K Masters
On 15:09 Fri 22 Jun , Mike McCarty wrote: > John K Masters wrote: > > [snip] > > >However, to transfer the files I have to use a floppy disc. How can I > >connect the 2 boxes? The DOS box cannot boot from CD, has no installed > >OS (boots into network off

Re: Connect to DOS box

2007-06-22 Thread John K Masters
On 13:07 Fri 22 Jun , Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Jun 22, 2007 at 08:58:33PM +0100, John K Masters wrote: > > However, to transfer the files I have to use a floppy disc. How can I > > connect the 2 boxes? The DOS box cannot boot from CD, has no installed > > O

Connect to DOS box

2007-06-22 Thread John K Masters
At work I use a networked box that runs from Novell Netware on DOS v5.0 This runs very old accounting software. The box itself is a P120 with 16 MB RAM and a small HD (about 128MB). No OS on the HD. I have managed to persuade the somewhat ITphobic management to provide me a standalone box on which

Re: Wrapping workspace-switcher

2007-05-27 Thread John K Masters
On 20:37 Sun 27 May , Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hi John. > > John K Masters, 27.05.2007 20:14: > > How do I get the workspace switcher to wrap from workspace 6 to 1 when I > > do Ctl-Alt-Right? I noticed XFCE does this by default but I use Gnome > > and have

Wrapping workspace-switcher

2007-05-27 Thread John K Masters
How do I get the workspace switcher to wrap from workspace 6 to 1 when I do Ctl-Alt-Right? I noticed XFCE does this by default but I use Gnome and have not found a way to do this. Regards, John -- War is God's way of teaching Americans geography Ambrose Bierce (1842 - 1914) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Location of http files?

2007-05-13 Thread John K Masters
On 12:28 Sun 13 May , Eric A. Bonney wrote: > I have my server setup as a web server. I know it is working correctly > since when I type in the ip address of the machine I get a page that > displays "It Works". So where do all the http file go that I want to be > in the public area? I know

Re: Newbie help how to enlarge root partition

2007-04-28 Thread John K Masters
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 10:16:12 -0400 "John Fleming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've looked at fdisk and parted, but I need help. Do I need to start > over copying my 40GB HDD to a properly-partitioned 160GB HDD, or can > someone give me detailed instructions to expand my 40GB root > partition to

Re: Newbie Samba help (solved)

2007-04-25 Thread John K Masters
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:03:47 -0400 "Jan Sneep" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Interestingly from the Win Xp machine I can see a whole bunch of > files and folders with names that start with a "." that I can't see > from the Gnome desktop. > These are hidden files. Not shown by default in Gno

Re: question - howto use postfix+reportbug in order to send bug reports to debian.org

2007-04-16 Thread John K Masters
On Mon, 16 Apr 2007 23:54:39 +0530 "shirish agarwal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I am using Ubuntu 7.04 (please don't laugh) and at times I do > report bugs. Sometimes I see that the bug-report is concerning > upstream (some issue, usability bug or feature-list wish). Unlike >

Re: Adding new disc

2007-04-13 Thread John K Masters
On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 00:23:32 +0200 Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-13 at 23:12 +0100, John K Masters wrote: > > I have just added a new 250GB disc to my etch setup. 4 partitions, > > all ext3. Changed /etc/fstab to mount > > to /music /data

Adding new disc

2007-04-13 Thread John K Masters
I have just added a new 250GB disc to my etch setup. 4 partitions, all ext3. Changed /etc/fstab to mount to /music /data /images /shared. So far no problem but the new partitions show up on my desktop as 40.6 GB Volume, 56.4 GB Volume etc. I don't mind them showing on the desktop but how can I ch

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-03-30 Thread John K Masters
On Fri, 30 Mar 2007 15:41:31 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/30/07 15:14, John Hasler wrote: > > Ron Johnson writes: > >> We buy the cheapest *whole* wheat bread at the local store that > >> doesn't taste like crumbly cardbo

Re: Debian Installation on a cybercafe PC

2007-02-26 Thread John K Masters
ly in RAM so is fast and allows easy CD burning. http://www.puppylinux.org/ -- John K Masters - User #417400 in the Linux Counter http://counter.li.org/ No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-25 Thread John K Masters
weighs about 8.33 pounds at the same temperature.) The Imperial fluid ounce is defined as 1/160 of an Imperial gallon. -- John K Masters - User #417400 in the Linux Counter http://counter.li.org/ No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

Re: Newbie Question: Debian and iTunes

2007-02-17 Thread John K Masters
/about.html Takes a bit of getting used to after iTunes but I like it. Regards -- John K Masters - User #417400 in the Linux Counter http://counter.li.org/ No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: removing sound-juicer

2007-02-13 Thread John K Masters
lising meta1 depends on it, I remove it. This breaks > meta1, so meta1 gets marked for removal as well cascading to dep1 and > dep2 (which stays because meta2 uses it). > > I don't know how accurate that all is, but that's how I view it and it > seems to kee

Re: removing sound-juicer

2007-02-12 Thread John K Masters
On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 14:15:02 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:01:29PM +0000, John K Masters wrote: > > I haven't tried anything yet. I'm using apt-get > > as I've never really got along with aptitude. Install

Re: removing sound-juicer

2007-02-12 Thread John K Masters
removing sound-juicer but would just like to keep things tidy. Regards -- John K Masters - User #417400 in the Linux Counter http://counter.li.org/ No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

removing sound-juicer

2007-02-11 Thread John K Masters
then how can I prevent it starting up every time I load a CD? Regards -- John K Masters - User #417400 in the Linux Counter http://counter.li.org/ No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Local webserver for testing, needed

2007-02-10 Thread John K Masters
s :-/ > http://slampp.abangadek.com/wiki/HomePage Regards -- John K Masters - User #417400 in the Linux Counter http://counter.li.org/ No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-06 Thread John K Masters
l mail with > @lists.debian.org to my Debian mailing list folder, and then from > there automatically sort which mailing list it's from.) > > For a decent graphical mail client you can't beat Sylpheed-Claws. Handles threading really well and is very customisable when you get

Re: Attracting newbies (Was Booting Debian/testing fails)

2007-02-06 Thread John K Masters
(OK I'm a Linux slut). I still have a soft spot for Slack but Debian just does it for me. Anyhow, I found the latest etch installed effortlessly and, with a few minor exceptions, worked 'out of the box'. Regards -- John K Masters - User #417400 in the Linux Counter http://counte

Re: PHP4 or 5

2007-01-31 Thread John K Masters
il to spamassassin running on a different server. No SQL/CMS. PHP is required purely for Squirrelmail. Regards -- John K Masters - User #417400 in the Linux Counter http://counter.li.org/ No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

Re: PHP4 or 5

2007-01-30 Thread John K Masters
v Yep! That's why I'm asking. When offered a choice I like to weigh up other users experiences. Does latest = best or not so stable? ATEOTD I'll probably go with PHP5 but I'd like to hear if others have some horror stories first. Regards -- John K Masters - User #417400 in the L

PHP4 or 5

2007-01-30 Thread John K Masters
I have just setup a mail server on Etch using Postfix and Courier. Would like to offer users webmail via Squirrelmail. Do I install PHP4 or 5? Any comments welcome. -- John K Masters - User #417400 in the Linux Counter http://counter.li.org/ No trees were killed in the creation of this

Re: Debian/NT Dual Boot?

2007-01-27 Thread John K Masters
lation. This may or may not work depending on which side of the bed Bill Gates got out of today :) Good Luck -- John K Masters - User #417400 in the Linux Counter http://counter.li.org/ No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

Re: Compact flash repair

2007-01-07 Thread John K Masters
On Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:21:35 +0100 Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 2007-01-06 at 14:10 +0000, John K Masters wrote: > > Obviously the FAT is corrupt. Is there any hope of recovering this or is he > > out of luck? > > This might be worth

Compact flash repair

2007-01-06 Thread John K Masters
this or is he out of luck? -- John K Masters - User #417400 in the Linux Counter http://counter.li.org/ No trees were killed in the creation of this message. However, many electrons were terribly inconvenienced. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2006-12-30 Thread John K Masters
; Sometimes, people give it no extension at all. For web servers, either > .cgi or .pl are usually used. > > Good luck! Feel free to email me if you have any questions! > > > At the end of the day it's whatever you feel most comfortable with. -- John K Masters - User #4

Re: mutt still sees expired apache certificate

2006-11-11 Thread John K Masters
ast looked mutt had no support for POP/IMAP and the times I have used mutt I have had to install postfix/procmail/fetchmail to get it working, which is why I went back to sylpheed. Might have another look. -- John K Masters - User #417400 in the Linux Counter http://counter.li.org/ No trees were

Re: mutt still sees expired apache certificate

2006-11-11 Thread John K Masters
Mutt doesn't *use* the web interface! > Mutt must be using either POP3/SSL or IMAP/SSL if it has been > configured to use SSL: you need to fix the POP3 or IMAP certificate, > in that case, not just Apache. > > Dave. Mutt doesn't use POP3/IMAP/SSL or anything like that. It p

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread John K Masters
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006 20:12:46 +0200 "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those > w