Re: I am getting angry at debian mailing list.

2005-08-03 Thread Randy Orrison
On 03-08-2005 05:45, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 02 August 2005 06:32 pm, John Hasler wrote: While unsubscription problems are usually PEBKAC, it is a well-known fact that the instructions sometimes fail. BTW, the footer is not present at the foot of your message as displayed by Gnus,

Re: mutt alternates command

2004-12-28 Thread Randy Orrison
Mike M wrote: 2. What's the proper way to read /usr/share/doc/mutt/NEWS.Debian.gz? I used: # cd /usr/share/doc/mutt/ # gunzip NEWS.Debian.gz # vi NEWS.Debian It worked but it seems there should be some sort of tool. Others have pointed out zless (or even just less by itself, check

Re: Old friend gone awry :-)

2004-05-28 Thread Randy Orrison
On Fri, May 28, 2004 at 09:34:33AM +0300, David Baron wrote: | How do I do this-- run with a script with the nice command? (Have not used | nice as of yet.) Just add -nice 19 to the setiathome command line: setiathome -nice 19 It's built in, and easier than using the nice command. Randy --

Re: Samba problem resolved: roaming profiles wouldn't

2004-05-24 Thread Randy Orrison
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:09:13AM +0100, Randy Orrison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System] LocalProfile=dword:0001 My only question is this: is this key documented

Re: Version specific notes for debs

2004-05-20 Thread Randy Orrison
Keith Nasman wrote: I was thinking it would be really nice if it also showed some package notes for this particular build. This would be of particular interest for security patches. i.e. This build incorporates bigfixes fixing vulnerability blah. See insert CVE/DSA link here for more info. Or, it

Re: addressbook recommendations?

2004-05-17 Thread Randy Orrison
Diego Martínez Castañeda wrote: Does anyone here have any recommenations for an addressbook? I'd like to replace kaddressbook (now that I'm not running kde). Something generic x-windows would be fine - or perhaps better a console-based one. If the data i'm using an openldap addressbook with

Re: Is newsgate used|useable?

2004-05-13 Thread Randy Orrison
Erik Christiansen wrote: After an apt-get install newsgate (woody), there doesn't seem to be any form of doco. Both man and info draw a blank, and: Did you check /usr/share/doc/newsgate? That's the standard place for debian packages to install documentation files. Randy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Exim Maildir Sample

2004-03-25 Thread Randy Orrison
Support wrote: I`m currently running exim at my server with default configuration. All my incoming will be at /var/spool/mail/ I would like to configure my exim to be Maildir format. What should I configure ? Is there any sample ? I would like all my incoming mail to be at /home/ Googling for

Re: cron path problem

2004-03-24 Thread Randy Orrison
Hans du Plooy wrote: I have setup a cron job (on woody) to run apt-get update and apt-get install once a week to do security updates. Just do apt-get install cron-apt (The version in testing should work fine on woody as well, and has a few more features, but the one in woody does what

Re: clamav and fetchmail?

2004-02-12 Thread Randy Orrison
On Wed, Feb 11, 2004 at 01:19:52PM -0500, stan wrote: | Other than I'm running exim, this sounds like what I'm trying to do. | | Can you enlighten me as to how you did this? | | Thanks. | | | Well the key is setting up amavis, or amavisd-new (which is a backported | package, you can

Re: Limiting Child Processes - SpamAssassin

2003-12-18 Thread Randy Orrison
BruceG wrote: I think this was answered on this list a few weeks ago, but as usual, my attention was elsewhere. Anyway - is there a way to limit the number of child processes SpamAssassin can spawn? I am running fetchmail, exim4-heavy-daemon and ClamAV. I had SpamAssasin running, but

Re: process limits (was: Spamassain question, whitelist?)

2003-12-14 Thread Randy Orrison
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 10:51:04AM -0800, Vineet Kumar wrote: | * Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031208 16:52]: |For performance reasons, I also have in /etc/security/limits: | |mailhardnproc 30 | |...to avoid runaway conditions when large

Re: Rationale

2003-12-01 Thread Randy Orrison
Paul Morgan wrote: The key in any case is to protect your /usr/local... from anyone except root writing to it, and also not to put current directory in root's path. Excellent idea. Too bad debian doesn't do that out of the box. /usr/local... doesn't exist so non-admins can put commands in

Re: A web interface for apt-get upgrade

2003-11-26 Thread Randy Orrison
Mark Roach wrote: On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 01:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a few machines running woody, each running slightly different package sets. Now to upgrade them I have to ssh into each of them and do the update/upgrade cycle. I do not want to put this in cron. how about

Re: migrating /home to a new partition

2003-11-14 Thread Randy Orrison
Jacob S. wrote: much good advice. Just a couple little tips that might make things easier: Once you're satisfied that everything's on /new_home, rm -r /home (Note: there's no turning back after you enter that command... double and triple check that things are like you want before you delete the

Re: Web-based e-mail system?

2003-10-07 Thread Randy Orrison
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 well. Does anyone know of

Re: Mutt: /home/adam/Maildir/ is not a mailbox

2003-07-28 Thread Randy Orrison
Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote: Quoting Adam Bogacki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Hmmm... I've read ( shamelessly borrowed) your configs and commented/uncommented everything in favour of Maildir in .procmailrc .muttrc and when, as user, I try mutt I get ---Mutt: (no mailbox)

Web based LDAP address book editing?

2003-07-22 Thread Randy Orrison
I'm looking for a simple and straightforward way to set up and edit an LDAP address book (general purpose shared company contacts). Is there such a beast out there that anyone can recommend? (I've done some apt-cache searching, and looked around on freshmeat, but didn't find anything.)

Re: Web based LDAP address book editing?

2003-07-22 Thread Randy Orrison
John Cuson wrote: just found this ... http://ldapweb.sourceforge.net/ additionally, mark wilcox's fine wrox book implementing ldap pretty well documents the construction of such a beast using perl cgi scripts. Thanks! The world is full of obvious things which nobody by any chance ever observes.

Re: tee -a /dev/null

2003-07-21 Thread Randy Orrison
Richard Kimber wrote: When I do a ps, I see a process: tee -a /dev/null I understand I might use tee from the command line, but why is this process running, and what is it appending to /dev/null ? And is it a Good Thing? Hard to say what it is... ps -ef gives the user, process id, and parent

Re: tee -a /dev/null

2003-07-21 Thread Randy Orrison
Richard Kimber wrote: On Mon, 21 Jul 2003 14:18:40 +0100 Randy wrote: Richard Kimber wrote: When I do a ps, I see a process: tee -a /dev/null I understand I might use tee from the command line, but why is this process running, and what is it appending to /dev/null ? And is it a Good Thing? Hard

Shared address book for Outlook?

2003-07-18 Thread Randy Orrison
a linux server; we're almost exclusively Microsoft.) Thanks, Randy Orrison -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shared address book for Outlook?

2003-07-18 Thread Randy Orrison
Sharninder Singh-662 wrote: I'm looking for software to set up a shared address book (names, email have u looked at opengroupware. that might be what u need. it just reached version 1 few days back. but that should'nt stop u .. would it ;) I have, yes. It's way overkill for what I'm looking for

Re: exim / amavis-ng overload

2003-07-16 Thread Randy Orrison
David Fokkema wrote: Many, many mails were downloaded (thanks to this fine group, :-) and almost immediately, my server became irresponsive. I managed to squeeze in and run top which came on after three minutes and saw my load increase from 20 to 30 to 50 to 77.81. I had a few exim processes and

Re: exim / amavis-ng overload

2003-07-16 Thread Randy Orrison
David Fokkema wrote: | On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 11:26:35AM +0100, Randy Orrison wrote: |David Fokkema wrote: ||Many, many mails were downloaded (thanks to this fine group, :-) and ||almost immediately, my server became irresponsive. |[In exim.conf:] |deliver_load_max = 4 |queue_only_load = 4

RE: pdnsd problems

2003-02-26 Thread Randy Orrison
| -Original Message- | From: Greg Norris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 12 February 2003 00:10 | | I'm having some problems getting a reliable pdnsd setup, which I was | hoping (obviously! ;-) that someone here could help me out with. [snip] | One thing I did notice in the log is that

RE: Converting audio CDs to audio files

2003-01-13 Thread Randy Orrison
| -Original Message- | From: Rob Weir [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | Sent: 13 January 2003 06:37 | | On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 01:55:33PM +0100, ernst wrote: | depends on what you really want, if you just want the files | on the hd you can: | | cdda2wav -v255 -D0,0 -B -Owav | | you

Shutdown via power button

2002-12-20 Thread Randy Orrison
mode is initialized before linux could | kill everything, then i press the button again, suspend mode will be | deactivated, and the suspeded shutdown command will finish its job. | | Kind of handy, if your keyboard and mouse is stuck (do to a bug in X | or 3Dfx or such). -- Randy Orrison

Modem dials without dialtone?

2002-12-18 Thread Randy Orrison
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RE: Modem dials without dialtone?

2002-12-18 Thread Randy Orrison
| From: John Hasler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] | | Randy Orrison writes: | Is it likely to be just a poor modem,... | | Yes. My Zoom modem does it too. Very irritating. Anyone have any ideas whether it can be fixed via a setting, or recommend an external hardware modem available

Re: Modem dials without dialtone?

2002-12-18 Thread Randy Orrison
On Wed, Dec 18, 2002 at 04:03:32PM -0600, Brooks R. Robinson wrote: | | | Randy Orrison writes: | | | Is it likely to be just a poor modem,... | | | Yes. My Zoom modem does it too. Very irritating. | | Anyone have any ideas whether it can be fixed via a setting, or | | recommend an external

RE: Problems with isdn...

2002-10-23 Thread Randy Orrison
: output DENY ippp0 PROTO=6 62.136.208.169:61151 212.58.224.112:80 L=48 S=0x00 I=14114 F=0x4000 T=127 SYN (#8) Any suggestions, or is there any other info that would be useful? Thanks! Randy Orrison -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

ident being hammered...

2002-05-02 Thread Randy Orrison
A couple days ago I wrote that my new NT server was hammering my samba servers. I fixed that by running them as daemons instead of from xinetd. Now I see that something's been doing the same to ident, and I can't tell who. The NT server is shut down, so it's not that, and I'm getting the

procmail being greedy?

2002-05-02 Thread Randy Orrison
Yesterday, procmail started bouncing mail from this list. My delivery system is fetchmail-exim-procmail, and I have debian-user filed into a maildir format directory. Here's the recipe that I use for debian-user: :0 * ^X-Mailing-List:.*debian-user { # Count the number of

NT hammering my samba netbios?

2002-05-01 Thread Randy Orrison
I've recently added a Windows NT4sp6a box to my home network, configured as a PDC and running Microsoft Exchange (don't ask). Since then, whenever it's up, I keep getting the following entries in /var/log/syslog: May 1 04:59:23 evo xinetd[606]: START: netbios-ns pid=19288 from=192.168.33.3 May

Re: NT hammering my samba netbios?

2002-05-01 Thread Randy Orrison
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:22:07PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: | On 0, Randy Orrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | I've recently added a Windows NT4sp6a box to my home network, configured as | a PDC and running Microsoft Exchange (don't ask). Since then, whenever it's | up, I keep getting

Re: NT hammering my samba netbios?

2002-05-01 Thread Randy Orrison
On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 07:57:48AM +0100, Randy Orrison wrote: | On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 04:22:07PM +0930, Tom Cook wrote: | | On 0, Randy Orrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | I've recently added a Windows NT4sp6a box to my home network, configured as | | a PDC and running Microsoft Exchange

Re: stupid script tricks - slightly OT

2002-04-30 Thread Randy Orrison
On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 12:05:11PM -0400, jeff wrote: | Allan Wind wrote: | cd /usr/local/share/icons; find / \( -name \*.gif -o name \*.jpeg -o | -name \*.jpg -o -name \*.tif -o -name \*.tiff \) -a -type f | xargs -i | ln -s \{\} . | | this looks like it should indeed work...but when i |

Re: 42 (was emacs21)

2002-03-04 Thread Randy Orrison
On Mon, Mar 04, 2002 at 03:03:22AM -0600, Gary Turner wrote: | On Sun, 03 Mar 2002 20:31:55 -0800, Harry Putnam wrote: | Gary Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | If you can't get an answer there, then the | only answer is 42 | Oh, thanks, I didn't know about that list. But your reference to 42 |

Re: potato web browsers

2002-02-08 Thread Randy Orrison
On Fri, 2002-02-08 at 06:12, nate wrote: quote who=will trillich so, what browsers are available as potato-friendly *.deb for X? Opera 5 and Opera 6 are potato friendly. in my experience opera 6 is woody-hostile though. opera 5 works good in woody. Opera 6 is working fine for me in woody,

Re: disk space blackhole?

2002-01-27 Thread Randy Orrison
On Sun, 2002-01-27 at 18:38, Dimitri Maziuk wrote: Nitpick: hardlinks are additional inodes pointing to the same file. Picking the same nit: hardlinks are directory entries that point to the same inode. Example: $ touch foo $ touch bar $ ls -li 144958 -rw-r--r--1 randyrandy

Re: (Kinda OT) What makes Debian cool?

2002-01-25 Thread Randy Orrison
On Fri, 2002-01-25 at 17:12, Jason Majors wrote: Almost any (choose your expletive here) can install a Microsoft product and almost any (same expletive here) can install Red Hat. Think people, don't just follow a fad. Honestly, I think the debian install is just as easy as RedHat and

Re: Debian, FHS /floppy

2002-01-21 Thread Randy Orrison
On Mon, 2002-01-21 at 02:07, Mark Blunier wrote: However, if a program needs to mount a file system temporarily, it needs to know of a place that it can assume is 'safe'. [presuming /mnt is available for that purpose, and doesn't have other stuff under it] Unless, of course, another program

Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?

2002-01-18 Thread Randy Orrison
On Fri, 2002-01-18 at 04:12, Mark Ferlatte wrote: I've been using GnomeICU for the last 4 hours, and it hasn't had the repeated messages problem yet (after doing a couple of client restarts). gaim and licq did it on every client restart, so maybe GnomeICU solved my problem. The problem that

Fwd: [Evolution] Strange calendar bug(s)

2002-01-17 Thread Randy Orrison
days earlier than the day you clicked.) Thanks! Randy -Forwarded Message- From: Randy Orrison [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: evolution@ximian.com evolution@ximian.com Subject: [Evolution] Strange calendar bug(s) Date: 14 Dec 2001 20:49:21 + It's strange, because it's so obvious, but I can't

Re: Using netselect, a list of mirrors

2002-01-12 Thread Randy Orrison
On Sat, 2002-01-12 at 05:53, Paul E Condon wrote: I am interested in using netselect to find the mirror site to use for the most socially responsible downloading of debian packages. When I installed netselect I also got netselect-apt which does exactly this, and produces a sources.list file in

Re: Confusion about X in woody

2002-01-10 Thread Randy Orrison
On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 01:12, Adam Majer wrote: Get rid off the 3.3.6 stuff - install xserver-xfree86 package. It will provide all the necessary drivers. Thanks to everyone who replied! I've done apt-get install xserver-xfree86; configuration with debconf handled everything just fine. (Almost

Re: Confusion about X in woody

2002-01-10 Thread Randy Orrison
On Thu, 2002-01-10 at 11:07, Randy Orrison wrote: Thanks to everyone who replied! I've done apt-get install xserver-xfree86; configuration with debconf handled everything just fine. (Almost -- I'm going to have to tweak my keyboard: I'm using a Microsoft Natural keyboard with UK layout

Confusion about X in woody

2002-01-09 Thread Randy Orrison
I installed Potato from CDs, and have since done an apt-get dist-upgrade to woody, and have been following woody since (with apt-get upgrade and install as needed when new packages arrived). I've recently noticed that I appear to be using X version 4.1, as shown by this partial output from dpkg

Re: Exim and its periodic calls to internet - A few questions

2001-12-11 Thread Randy Orrison
On Tue, 2001-12-11 at 10:49, Dougie Nisbet wrote: I usually use kmail for my e-mail, but I have exim installed too. I mean to learn about it some day. I'm getting some puzzling internet connections that appear to be initiated by exim, but I can't see where it's doing it. The syslog shows:

What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

2001-11-17 Thread Randy Orrison
I'm a relative newbie to Linux and Debian (though in a former life I was a Unix sysadmin). I've installed potato r3, upgraded to 2.2r4, and had my pppd working fine, dialling out on demand at reasonable and predictable times. Now I've upgraded to woody and it's dialling out every 5-10 minutes,

RE: What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

2001-11-17 Thread Randy Orrison
| -Original Message- | From: nate [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 17 November 2001 19:54 | | Randy Orrison said: | I'm a relative newbie to Linux and Debian (though in a former life | I was a Unix sysadmin). I've installed potato r3, upgraded to | 2.2r4, and had my pppd working fine

RE: What's causing my demand ppp to connect?

2001-11-17 Thread Randy Orrison
| From: Debian User [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | Sent: 17 November 2001 20:32 | | On Sat, 17 Nov 2001, Randy Orrison wrote: | times. Now I've upgraded to woody and it's dialling out every | 5-10 minutes, then hanging up after the idle timeout. I've | looked at all the /var/log/... | | Maybe