scripting question

2007-09-21 Thread Michael Martinell
I have a simple script that counts up the number of spam messages each day and prints the total number into a text field. This is fine as far as it goes, however I would like to also include the date and the number of non-spam messages. I can get this to run, however each piece of information

RE: scripting question

2007-09-21 Thread Michael Martinell
, Michael Martinell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a simple script that counts up the number of spam messages each day and prints the total number into a text field. This is fine as far as it goes, however I would like to also include the date and the number of non-spam messages. I can get

Re: Back to original topic [Was: [Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]]

2006-01-10 Thread Michael Martinell
On Tue, January 10, 2006 11:08 am, Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 14:43:18 +0100, David Jardine wrote: On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:35:22AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] Ok, then let's get back to the original topic of this thread: the help help messages won't

Re: i8253 count too high! resetting..

2006-01-06 Thread Michael Martinell
On Thu, January 5, 2006 12:54 pm, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: 2006/1/5, Michael Martinell [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I am getting the following error during the install of 3.1r0a. The error is: i8253 count too high! resetting.. I am installing this in a virtual pc environment. I am pretty sure

i8253 count too high! resetting..

2006-01-05 Thread Michael Martinell
I am getting the following error during the install of 3.1r0a. The error is: i8253 count too high! resetting.. I am installing this in a virtual pc environment. I am pretty sure that the emulated hardware is causing the problem. Any idea what needs to be reset? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: New kernel unable to mount/see a whole HD

2006-01-02 Thread Michael Martinell
On Mon, January 2, 2006 9:39 am, J.F. Gratton wrote: (I must first start by apologizing if you've seen this post twice in 12hrs.. I've had problems here with my smtp; not sure it went well) Hello, I've been unable to access any partition on /dev/hda since I've compiled my own kernel

change networks

2005-11-10 Thread Michael Martinell
Hi, I am going to migrate an Debian server from the current network to a new network. It does use DHCP so that part should not be a problem. How do I change the gateway and dns settings to get everything to work in the new network? Most of what I can find specifies changing a static ip range.

Re: OT: Shared calendar server on Debian

2005-11-03 Thread Michael Martinell
On Thu, November 3, 2005 1:47 pm, Caleb Walker wrote: Hello all, I am wondering if there are any suggestions for a shared calendar system on Debian. My setup is as follows. I have a Cyrus, Spamassassin, Procmail, Postfix and OpenLDAP running on a server that I have in this office for mail

apache-php file creation question

2005-10-14 Thread Michael Martinell
Hi. I did ask this question to same apache people and they think it must be the OS. So here goes: I am running debian woody with apache and php. I have created a php application that should let me create and edit text files in a particular directory. When I try out my program I get a security

Re: Drivers for Adaptec aar-1420sa

2005-10-06 Thread Michael Martinell
On Wed, October 5, 2005 11:49 am, Michael Martinell wrote: Trying to install debian on a system that has 4 SATA drives connected to an Adaptec AAR-1420SA RAID card. I have looked at adaptec's site and have not found any drivers that will work with the kernel I am using. My kernel

Drivers for Adaptec aar-1420sa

2005-10-05 Thread Michael Martinell
Trying to install debian on a system that has 4 SATA drives connected to an Adaptec AAR-1420SA RAID card. I have looked at adaptec's site and have not found any drivers that will work with the kernel I am using. My kernel is 2.6.12. I have tried to install debian using the linux26 option on

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Michael Martinell
On Fri, September 9, 2005 11:22 pm, Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:49:53PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: On Fri, September 9, 2005 8:53 pm, Carl Fink wrote: [] Any information needed to make a choice should be PART OF THE PROGRAM (minus very rare cases). Why make

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Michael Martinell
On Sat, September 10, 2005 9:20 am, David Clymer wrote: On Sat, 2005-09-10 at 08:39 -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: I do wish that debian had such a utility though, it would be the ultimate in simplicity. You could just download a generic answer file from Debian for your x86 platform

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Michael Martinell
On Sat, September 10, 2005 9:28 am, Kent West wrote: Continuing your analogy, I want auto manufacturers and software manufacturers to design for the consumer's benefit, rather than the manufacturer's benefit. Although this is what I want, I don't expect it from auto manufacturers, nor do I

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Michael Martinell
On Sat, September 10, 2005 10:22 am, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:49:53PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: On Fri, September 9, 2005 8:53 pm, Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:30:29PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: If you install an OS, expect to read docs

Re: Help!

2005-09-09 Thread Michael Martinell
On Fri, September 9, 2005 8:53 pm, Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:30:29PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: If you install an OS, expect to read docs, period. No. Any information needed to make a choice should be PART OF THE PROGRAM (minus very rare cases). Why make the new user

Re: Help!

2005-09-07 Thread Michael Martinell
On Wed, September 7, 2005 1:59 pm, Olle Eriksson wrote: I don't think people should ever have to read documents in order to use a product. Requiring people to read the docs suggests that the product itself isn't designed well enough that it explains its own usage. You claim that it

Re: Disk dont work with linux ?!

2005-08-19 Thread Michael Martinell
On Fri, August 19, 2005 4:03 pm, Attila Szilagyi wrote: Hi dear debian users, I would like ask for some help. I need install Debian Sarge on an old 333MHZ Celeron machine. This machine include an old SEAGATE 3,2GB hdd. With win98 this disc work good. I started install debian and i made an

script copy files based upon content

2005-08-05 Thread Michael Martinell
I am trying to figure out how to come up with a shell script that will cat or grep a file and if it contains the word SPAM it will then move it to another folder. I have been trying combinations of grep SPAM * | mv * ../spam however I don't know what to put in for * since the filenames are

Load and run Debian from a USB stick

2005-07-29 Thread Michael Martinell
I am attempting to get debian to run completely from an USB hard drive. I have followed the instructions at http://www.debian.org/releases/sarge/i386/ch04s04.html with success. However this only enables me to boot from the usb drive and then do a full install to the hard drives. I want the

unable to boot new kernel

2005-07-22 Thread Michael Martinell
I upgraded my woody install to use grub using (I had been using lilo) apt-get install grub grub0install /dev/hda update-grub I then rebooted and everything was good, I am using grub and all is well. I then decided to upgrade the kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.6.12.3 with CIFS support. This worked

Re: new to debian

2005-07-12 Thread Michael Martinell
On Tue, July 12, 2005 2:24 pm, Johan said: hi to.. Kent West, Sorry for funny mail..had call in my laptop to do messaging. The station switch off replace drive and reboot. Apg-get refuses to install any og those pckages you mentoned..dependencie problem. Seem that all those 13 dics in

Re: new to debian

2005-07-12 Thread Michael Martinell
apt-get update This will refresh your sources list Also, do you have disk 1 in the /etc/sources ? I believe that the X install is still located there. -- makes no difference johan So what message do you get when you type startx? What errors are you seeing in /var/log logfiles? --

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-08 Thread Michael Martinell
On Fri, July 8, 2005 8:45 pm, Cybe R. Wizard said: Yes, that makes perfect sense and reiterates what I have said; that if a thing has dropped in price 2000-fold /someone/ should now be paying me to use their hardware. Isn't it similar to the problem in saying that something costs, say,

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-08 Thread Michael Martinell
On Fri, July 8, 2005 10:25 pm, Carl Fink said: On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:24:07PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: Following these statements and math, one is always dividing, not subtracting. No matter how many times you divide you are still left with parts. If you then call each

RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Martinell
I have been experiementing with the RAID stuff in Debian 3.1r0a In this experiment I configured as follows: 1st Hard Drive /boot 400mb swap 2GB partition for Raid volume 37 GB 2nd - 4th HD partition for Raid volume 37 GB. A few questions have came up: When I replace a hard drive (simulated

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Martinell
On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:11 am, Andy Smith said: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:53:34AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: I have been experiementing with the RAID stuff in Debian 3.1r0a In this experiment I configured as follows: 1st Hard Drive /boot 400mb swap 2GB partition for Raid volume 37

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Martinell
You never mentioned a RAID controller so I assumed software RAID. If you have a hardware RAID controller then the steps are usually unique to that hardware and you need to consult its documentation. That would be a typo - I have no raid controllor - just IDE. What I should have said was

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Martinell
On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:11 am, Andy Smith said: If the first hard drive crashes how do you recover? You restore from backups or do a new install. There has got to be a better solution than that. I never want to consider my backups to be a first line of defense against hardware failure. I

thinkpad 770 X full screen

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Martinell
I am running Debian 3.1r0a I have been trying to get X to run full screen on an IBM thinkpad 770z. X runs, however it leaves a large matte area of dead screen. The monitor is fine, since that other OS uses it all. I've tried to change various options in x86Config however I have yet to hit

Re: thinkpad 770 X full screen

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Martinell
On Wed, July 6, 2005 2:45 pm, martin f krafft said: also sprach Michael Martinell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2005.07.06.2128 +0200]: I have been trying to get X to run full screen on an IBM thinkpad 770z. X runs, however it leaves a large matte area of dead screen. The monitor is fine, since

RE: secure apache in debian

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Martinell
-Original Message- From: Jon Dowland [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 6:24 AM To: debian-user Subject: Re: secure apache in debian Michael Martinell wrote: What is the best way to secure an entire site in apache? I have 3.1 r0 and have installed

RE: secure apache in debian - FINISHED

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Martinell
-Original Message- From: Petri Varsa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 8:30 AM To: Michael Martinell; debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: secure apache in debian I think this should work for you: Location

RE: OT - recommendations for a simple shopping cart

2005-06-22 Thread Michael Martinell
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 22, 2005 1:20 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: OT - recommendations for a simple shopping cart Anyone have any suggestions for an easy to setup easy to administer shopping

mount file share in cron

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Martinell
I have set up a backup job that will mount a share, perform the backup and then umount the share. This works fine as root. When I schedule the job in cron however, the backup always fails because the mount never occurs. If I manually mount and then run the backup job in root it is successful.

RE: mount file share in cron --SOLVED

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Martinell
-Original Message- From: Michael Martinell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 7:02 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: mount file share in cron I have set up a backup job that will mount a share, perform the backup and then umount the share

secure apache in debian

2005-06-21 Thread Michael Martinell
I know that this might not be entirely on-topic however: What is the best way to secure an entire site in apache? I have 3.1 r0 and have installed the apache package. Basically I want 1 user to be able to access any directory or folder that exists now or will ever exist in the future in the

RE: Looking for recommendation or backup/restore tool - FINISHED

2005-06-16 Thread Michael Martinell
Thanks for providing me with some very valuable ideas. I ended up doing the following: 1. Compiled kernel to 2.6.11.12 with CIFS support 2. Mounted my win 2003 shares 3. Used rsnapshot to back up shares to apache web directory - easy for file restore. This seems to be a good solution that will

FW: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !

2005-06-15 Thread Michael Martinell
-Original Message- From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:15 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! ! AFAIK dselect gets removed from debian. apt-get is deprecated. aptitude is the tool

Looking for recommendation or backup/restore tool

2005-06-13 Thread Michael Martinell
I am looking for a backup/restore solution that would fall into the following category: 1. Web interface to apache 2. Able to select mount points or files in the interface 3. Able to perform a restore of a specified file in the backup I have searched google quite a bit, however I can only find

access windows 2003 server shares

2005-06-09 Thread Michael Martinell
My question is two-fold. My primary question as follows: How can you access windows 2003 shares? I have tried smbmount however I get the following error: debian:/backup# smbmount //jupiter/c$ /jupiter -o username=mis/mike cli_negprot: SMB signing is mandatory and we have disabled it. 4261:

Configure X on virtual pc 2004

2005-05-09 Thread Michael Martinell
I just downloaded 3.01 r5 and wanted to try it out. I set up an virtual pc 2004 session in and installed it. I can only get X to start in 256 color 640x480 mode. Not a very useful mode. I have tried just about every combination of xf86config and dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 however I

putting ascii keys in a script

2004-12-08 Thread Michael Martinell
it as a request to insert a new line? Thanks for any help. Michael Martinell Manager of Information Systems Dakota Nation Gaming Enterprise (605) 882 2051 ext 716 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

password change

2004-06-09 Thread Michael Martinell
Is there a way to script out the changing of passwords at the command line. I have about 60 passwords to change manually, according to federal policy. In windows I would just do a net user username password Is there no similar linux command? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

RE: mail server changing machines

2004-06-04 Thread Michael Martinell
For what it's worth this is how I did it: Since I only had 100 users I added them new. If you have more users you will want to script this. Then I copied the contents of the squirrelmail data directory to my new machine. Since I already had samba on both boxes I then copied the /home directory

chkrootkit slapper detected

2004-05-27 Thread Michael Martinell
This morning I checked my chkrootkit log and had the following message: Checking `slapper'... Warning: Possible Slapper Worm installed I looked at the chkrootkit script, manually checked each of its checks and did not find anything either. I re-ran the chkrootkit command to generate a new report

RE: spamassassin question

2004-05-27 Thread Michael Martinell
I am assuming you are processing spamassassin before you tell sendmail to deliver. I use qmail so I can't really tell you how to make sure. At any rate: Otherwise go to /etc/spamassassin and edit the local.cf file and change the subject tag to what you want. If you change the required hits

extended character sets

2004-05-26 Thread Michael Martinell
How does one use the extended ascii character sets? I am referring to the alt + number combinations that I like to use in passwords. For example: alt + 0161 = an upside down exclamation mark. When used in passwords most cracking software does not work since they do not check for the extended

possible to use windows 2003 logins in debian

2004-05-26 Thread Michael Martinell
Is it possible to configure debian to authenticate using an windows 2003 active directory? Would you need to have the following installed? apt-get install slapd ldap-utils I can't really find allot of documentation on this, however have been told that it is possible. Any help, even a pointer

sharepoint server type

2004-05-25 Thread Michael Martinell
Does anybody know if there is any Linux software similar in functionality to the Microsoft Sharepoint server? This is a server that enables users to collaborate on various projects and tasks across the internet. I currently have a sharepoint on Windows, however would like to migrate it to

shell scripting question

2004-05-19 Thread Michael Martinell
Hopefully somebody here has perhaps seen this oddity and can provide some insight into the cause. I have a very simple shell script as follows: mail:~/scripts# more topcheck #!/bin/bash date /usr/local/apache/htdocs/topout.txt echo \c ; top -n 1 /usr/local/apache/htdocs/topout.txt I have also

run a script at startup

2004-05-14 Thread Michael Martinell
I have a script that I would like to run every time the computer is restarted. Is there a particular file that I would call it from? It must start after all of the other start-up processes have finished since it relies upon some of them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

unlock a locked up tty session

2004-04-22 Thread Michael Martinell
This has happened several times recently. I have changed from one tty session to another, come back to the first, and the session is locked up. If I was in an application, it just sits there, if I was at the command line, I cannot type. I can change back to other tty sessions and continue to do

RE: unlock a locked up tty session

2004-04-22 Thread Michael Martinell
-Original Message- From: Matt Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 5:17 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: unlock a locked up tty session On Thu, Apr 22, 2004 at 04:15:11PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: This has happened several times recently. I have

ssh stopped working

2004-01-22 Thread Michael Martinell
I had ssh working fine on my debian server running woody. I changed the password of the root user and restarted the machine and am now unable to locally or remotely connect using ssh clients. If I start ssh in debug mode with ssh d it will connect with client tools. I am not getting

RE: ssh stopped working

2004-01-22 Thread Michael Martinell
-Original Message- From: Jan Minar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 7:11 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ssh stopped working On Thu, Jan 22, 2004 at 06:42:23PM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote: I changed the password of the root user and restarted

RE: ssh stopped working

2004-01-22 Thread Michael Martinell
-Original Message- From: Henning Moll [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 7:14 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: ssh stopped working On Friday 23 January 2004 01:42, Michael Martinell wrote: I changed the password of the root user and restarted the machine

delete file based on content

2004-01-05 Thread Michael Martinell
Can anybody tell me what I am doing wrong? I am trying to delete files based upon content. As an example I have files called log1, log2, log3 Log 1 contains the words Processing completed correctly and can be deleted. I tried the following: grep li Processing completed correctly *

RE: delete file based on content

2004-01-05 Thread Michael Martinell
-Original Message- From: Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: delete file based on content On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:35:26PM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote: [snip] I tried the following: grep -li Processing

RE: delete file based on content

2004-01-05 Thread Michael Martinell
Please ignore former post. It was an ID10T error on my part. -Original Message- From: Tom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, January 05, 2004 5:41 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: delete file based on content On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:35:26PM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote

RE: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-11 Thread Michael Martinell
That's why the people doing the documentation should be the power-user who is not familiar with every intricate detail, and has had to struggle and learn the system. That is the person who can usually explain things in a matter that does not bore the general populace to tears. After all, if

Re: Virtual PC 5.2

2003-12-09 Thread Michael Martinell
I have tried every card (I think) listed and I have not had any luck with virtual pc. If anybody out there knows what it takes to configure the startx for the virtual pc environment I would be interested. I know that it works, as I had it running with Knoppix at one time.

RE: Virtual PC 5.2

2003-12-09 Thread Michael Martinell
: Tuesday, December 09, 2003 11:49 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Virtual PC 5.2 Michael Martinell wrote: I have tried every card (I think) listed and I have not had any luck with virtual pc. If anybody out there knows what it takes to configure the startx for the virtual pc

RE: Virtual PC 5.2

2003-12-09 Thread Michael Martinell
5.2 On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 11:53:29AM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote: | It lists it as a VGA Compatible controller S3 Inc 86c764/765 [Trio32/64/64+] Try the 'vga' driver. It might not be as good as the s3 driver on real hardware, but it should at least be operational and give you something

RE: Virtual PC 5.2

2003-12-09 Thread Michael Martinell
It appears that xfree86 does not support the base S3 card after 3.3.6. It only supports the savage series. Is there a recommended downgrade path that works? Or in other words, what would the apt-get command for this be? -Original Message- From: Michael Martinell [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: making a floppy for essential modules

2003-12-09 Thread Michael Martinell
Here is how I set up my Dell Set up Debian 3.0r1 on Dell Poweredge 2400 1. Insert Debian disk and boot from it. 2. At boot: prompt type bf24 and press enter. 3. Complete rest of install normally. Make sure to install the c compiler. 4. Download most current kernel. For this

crontab

2003-12-04 Thread Michael Martinell
I am definitely doing something wrong here. I want to schedule a job to run once at 12:00 noon. I set it up in cron. It waits until 12:00 noon, runs, and then runs every minute after. Can anybody tell me what I have done wrong? Here is my cron entry for this job. * 12 * * *

permamently load a network module

2003-12-04 Thread Michael Martinell
I have configured my network to use a driver, however when the computer restarts it no longer has the network. I installed the driver as follows: /etc/init.d/networking stop copy the module to /lib/modules/2.4.18-bf2.4/kernel/drivers/net /sbin/insmod

RE: permamently load a network module

2003-12-04 Thread Michael Martinell
: permamently load a network module Hello Michael Martinell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I have configured my network to use a driver, however when the computer restarts it no longer has the network. I installed the driver as follows: /etc/init.d/networking stop copy the module to /lib

dell poweredge 2400

2003-12-02 Thread Michael Martinell
I am trying to install debian 3.0r1 on a dell poweredge 2400. This has the perc 2/si adaptec aic7880 raid controller installed. I am unable to get this to run. I did try to compile the latest kernel on another machine and boot with those disks however it did not work either. If

RE: dell poweredge 2400

2003-12-02 Thread Michael Martinell
by Michael Martinell on Tue, 2 Dec 2003 11:04:31 -0600, received at 19:08:56 on 02/12/2003. Michael Martinell wrote: I am trying to install debian 3.0r1 on a dell poweredge 2400. This has the perc 2/si adaptec aic7880 raid controller installed. I am unable to get this to run. I did try