RE: [expert] Spamassassin + CommuniGate Pro config

2003-01-11 Thread Brian York
Thanks. Are you using this setup? I also need to know how scaliable spamassassin is. Will it handle 20,000 users at around 30 emails a second. Keep in mind that their will be a virus scanner, communigate using their webmail for around 15,000 of the users, 2,000 using pop or imap and the other 3,000

Re: [expert] How to convert curly quotes etc. to plain text?

2003-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:24, Michael Adams wrote: > On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 03:42, Mark Weaver wrote: > > Damon Lynch wrote: > > > On Fri, 2003-01-10 at 16:18, Mark Weaver wrote: > > >>I don't mean to be facicious here, but the utility is called PERL. > > > > > > I can already do that with Python (and in

[expert] weekly cron

2003-01-11 Thread Guy Van Sanden
Hello guys I suspect that the contents of cron.weekly is not executed. My system is mainly default Mandrake 9.0. I see a script slocate.cron in /etc/cron.weekly, run manually it updates the locate database, but it does not seem to run weekly (my system is up for >6 hours a day, mostly every day.

Re: [expert] weekly cron

2003-01-11 Thread Michael Adams
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 22:15, Guy Van Sanden wrote: > Hello guys > > I suspect that the contents of cron.weekly is not executed. My system > is mainly default Mandrake 9.0. > > I see a script slocate.cron in /etc/cron.weekly, run manually it updates > the locate database, but it does not seem to run

Re: [expert] SSH

2003-01-11 Thread david . whiting
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 10:30:04AM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > > >I grabbed an old P90 with 32MB - 540MB Drive and installed Smoothwall. > >http://www.smoothwall.org > >Now I run my entire network through it and just simply fergit it's there > >except for frequent log checks. > > I've heard abou

[expert] First 9.1beta frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
Dear friends, After 13 hours I downloaded the beta1 and try to test it using my /dev/hdb13 partition that was previously using LiNeX (Linux distribution from the Extremadura Spanish community). But I have a real nightmare: a) My wheel mouse wasn't runing fine, in the selection packages I had to

[expert] Unbootable kernels after upgrade

2003-01-11 Thread Svante Signell
Hello, I have been following the cooker development for some time now regularly upgrading. However, due to different reasons the upgrading was halted for the last half year. When starting the upgrade again in December from a situation around some time before 9.0 and halfway through I got stuck. No

Re: [expert] Samba 2.2.7a packages

2003-01-11 Thread et
as i understood it, the 2 gig limit wasa fat problem, not a Samba problem, On Friday 10 January 2003 09:31 pm, Vincent Danen wrote: > On Fri Jan 10, 2003 at 06:34:31PM -0500, Mark Weaver wrote: > > >Hey Mandrake, > > > > > >I see there is still no regular update to Samba to fix the very nasty >

Re: [expert] Spamassassin + CommuniGate Pro config

2003-01-11 Thread Jack Coates
There's a very good SpamAssassin mailing list on spamassassin.org and an even better Postfix mailing list at postfix.org where these issues are discussed frequently. I recommend you ask there. From lurking on both lists, I can give you some general guidelines: use spamc/spamd (sorta like mod_pe

[expert] devfs and /lib/dev-state/

2003-01-11 Thread Steffen Barszus
Hi ! I have found today /lib/dev-state/. In there are files which behaves as devices. I had a long time a problem that a device did not behave as it should. The device is called /dev/isdn/isdninfo. Behavior: on cat /dev/isdn/isdninfo you should get out 6 lines of text. On status-change you ge

Re: [expert] Samba 2.2.7a packages

2003-01-11 Thread Luca Olivetti
Vincent Danen wrote: It's also unfair to be sitting around and yelling "Hey Mandrake when are you going to fix this bug that no one reported?". Is there a bugzilla entry for this? If I'm not wrong there's no bugzilla for released distributions. https://qa.mandrakesoft.com is only for cooker.

Re: [expert] First 9.1beta frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread Mark Weaver
Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: [small snip] d) I try to restart using my Mandrake 9.0 start disk, but then an error with file system appear for /dev/hdb13 (the partition with 9.1), telling that I do need a newer version of ext3 :-(. I've noticed this happening with the RH 8.1 beta as well. to

Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH

2003-01-11 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:49 am, Mark Weaver wrote: > Lorne wrote: > > On Friday 10 January 2003 11:13 am, Todd Lyons wrote: > >>Lorne wrote on Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:15:02AM -0700 : > >>>I've run coyote-linux for 5 years now and have NEVER been hacked. That > >>> is until September of 2002.

[expert] SSH setup & logs to watch?

2003-01-11 Thread Robert Barry
I've setup a ssh server on mandrake 9.0 at work. Its behind a D-Link DI-604 router/firewall on a DSL line. I have the DI-604 forward port 22 to my ssh server. >From my house I use Putty to ssh in to the network at work and run VNC through ssh to my Windows 2000 computer at my desk at work. It wo

[expert] Continued login problems

2003-01-11 Thread 1577910929
All; This may be self inflicted, but the box is nearly locked down, and I need a little help sorting it out. Background: I recently had a problem with the sshd user having been deleted... The seeming result of a power outage... With that restored, I set to cleaning up the rest of the mess. As a c

Re: [expert] Unbootable kernels after upgrade

2003-01-11 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Svante Signell wrote: BTW: How do you find to which package a file belongs using rpm? Like dpkg -S file in Debian. rpm -qa|grep file works but does not easily give the packege information. For example: [rolf@localhost rolf]$ rpm -qf gunzip error: file gunzip: No such file or directory [rolf@

Re: [expert] Samba 2.2.7a packages

2003-01-11 Thread Jim C
Heck, I would just like to be able to add a user or a computer to an LDAP db in a reasonable manner. That would be nice. Jim C. Bob Puff@NLE wrote: Hey Mandrake, I see there is still no regular update to Samba to fix the very nasty 2gb file limit. So, I checked cooker. There -is- one in there

Re: [expert] Continued login problems

2003-01-11 Thread Chuck Burns
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 12:36, 1577910929 wrote: *snip* > Now... It won't allow users to log in. I *CAN* log in as root, but not a > normal user. > Also, e-Mail stopped working, as did the web server. > *snip* > Jan 11 10:30:30 sshd[3503]: Accepted password for from > xx.xx.xx.xxx port 33509 ssh2

[expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi List, I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo is torched, but no worries. It's FRIGGIN GORGEOUS a little sparse yet, but GOD BLESS MANDRAKESOFT!!! Guys! you are doing THE best job in the world. The font suppor

Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread Jack Coates
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi List, I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo is torched, but no worries. It's FRIGGIN GORGEOUS a little sparse yet, but GOD BLESS MANDRAKESOFT!!! Guys! you are doing THE best job in the wor

Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread Mark Weaver
On Saturday 11 January 2003 05:04 pm, Jack Coates wrote: > Mark Weaver wrote: > >Hi List, > > > >I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little > >challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo is torched, but no > >worries. It's FRIGGIN GORGEOUS a little sparse yet, but G

[expert] making a boot disk

2003-01-11 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi List, I've got to make a boot disk, but I've gotta do it the old fashioned way and I don't remember how that is done. Could some kind soul direct me on how this is accomplished? thanks, Mark -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (

Re: [expert] making a boot disk

2003-01-11 Thread SainTiss
Hi, mkbootdisk should be the command you're looking for.. Cheers, Hans On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 23:56, Mark Weaver wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi List, > > I've got to make a boot disk, but I've gotta do it the old fashioned way and I > don't remember how that i

Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 11 January 2003 21:50, Mark Weaver wrote: > > Whoo H!!! > > Mark Now you've done it I'me gonna download right now!!!:o) Have fun, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Re: [becoming OT] SSH ... and smoothwall

2003-01-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 11 January 2003 14:46, stefmit wrote: > Does anybody know what is - then - the difference between smoothwall and > ipcop (i.e. who is doing more development and update work)? I got ipcop > (www.ipcop.org), and I like it ... never tried smoothwall, though. Depends where you put the acce

Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 12 January 2003 00:03, Mark Weaver wrote: > I'll try to get a few together for you, although I don't know if the screen > shot will do these gorgeous fonts justice. GOD THEY'RE PRETTY! > > Mark Huh! Didn't you allready have antialiased fonts? Or is this "something really different"? Goo

Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Sunday 12 January 2003 00:22, Mark Weaver wrote: > > Hi Harm, > > Yes, I had antialiased fonts, but in 9.0 they sure as shootin don't look > like this! > > Mark GOODYY=;o) Off to download now! Good testing, HarM Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http:

Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread Charlie
On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:50 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > Hi List, > > I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little > challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo is torched, but no > worries. It's FRIGGIN GORGEOUS a little sparse yet, but GOD BLESS > MANDRAKESOFT!!!

Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 05:42 pm, Azrael wrote: > On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 21:50, Mark Weaver wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little > > challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo is torched

Re: [expert] making a boot disk

2003-01-11 Thread Charlie
On Saturday 11 January 2003 04:09 pm, SainTiss wrote: > Hi, > > mkbootdisk should be the command you're looking for.. > > Cheers, > > Hans > > On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 23:56, Mark Weaver wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Hi List, > > > > I've got to make a boot disk,

Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH

2003-01-11 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:35 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > > That is what I asked the director yesterday. He said the head dude > > is from the "CIA" and he has always been against it. WFT!?!? > > My response was, I need to talk to this guy, because he either > > doesn't understand them or

Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:10 pm, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Sunday 12 January 2003 00:03, Mark Weaver wrote: > > I'll try to get a few together for you, although I don't know if the > > screen shot will do these gorgeous fonts justice. GOD THEY'RE P

Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread Jack Coates
Mark Weaver wrote: grep ACPI /var/log/dmesg BIOS-e820: 0fec - 0fef8000 (ACPI data) BIOS-e820: 0fef8000 - 0ff0 (ACPI NVS) ACPI: have wakeup address 0xc0001000 ACPI: RSDP (v000 AMI) @ 0x000ff980 ACPI: RSDT (v001 DELL MUMMY08193.0

Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread Praedor Tempus Atrebates
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:30 pm, Charlie wrote: > On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:50 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little > > challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo

Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH

2003-01-11 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 11 January 2003 06:04 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:47 pm, Lorne wrote: > > On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:35 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > > > > > > > > That is what I asked the director yesterday. He said the head dude > > > > is from the "CIA" and he has al

[expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions

2003-01-11 Thread Francisco Alcaraz Ariza
1) Mi dhcp (cable modem) not well installed, the resolv.conf file was empty; I had to put the ips using a text editor. Now is runing 2) Tv well configured. I downloaded xawtv and the dependence files from cooker; now is runing fine. 3) my second cd-driver (dvd) is not well configured; I will tr

Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:30 pm, Charlie wrote: > On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:50 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It, being a beta, was a little > > challenging getting to load, and I'm sure lilo

[expert] bash scripting question - simple regular expression?

2003-01-11 Thread Jim C
I have a list of positive integers of which I only want the first one. They are of arbitrary size. How can I cut the rest of them off? I've been trying to write a regular expression for this using sed or awk. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.c

Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH

2003-01-11 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:47 pm, Lorne wrote: > On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:35 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > > > > That is what I asked the director yesterday. He said the head dude > > > is from the "CIA" and he has always been against it. ??

Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH

2003-01-11 Thread Lorne
On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:25 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > On Saturday 11 January 2003 09:17 pm, Lorne scribbled incoherently: > > Could very well be. Unfortunately the two guys that are in "charge" of it > > are such buffoons that I would not work with them anyhow. I fully expect > > them to get f

Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:40 pm, Praedor Tempus Atrebates wrote: > On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:30 pm, Charlie wrote: > > On Saturday 11 January 2003 02:50 pm, Mark Weaver wrote: > > > Hi List, > > > > > > I just finished loading Mdk9.1beta1. It

[expert] Continued problems

2003-01-11 Thread 1577910929
Well, I'm getting closer to recovering the system after the crash... I can log in now, and the web works again. But now I can't seem to get imap working again. (and thus my mail!). It's installed, and has the proper entries in both /etc/services, and /etc/xinetd.d, and the port is open in the fire

Re: [expert] Samba 2.2.7a packages

2003-01-11 Thread Vincent Danen
On Sat Jan 11, 2003 at 05:21:42PM +0100, Luca Olivetti wrote: > >It's also unfair to be sitting around and yelling "Hey Mandrake when > >are you going to fix this bug that no one reported?". Is there a > >bugzilla entry for this? > > If I'm not wrong there's no bugzilla for released distribution

Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread James Sparenberg
Mark, Are you running this on a laptop or a DeskTop... Reason I'm asking is I tried out the cooker kernel a few weeks ago on my laptop and found that pcmcia slowed to an absolute crawl then a boot back into MDK stock and it became normal again. James On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 17:29, H.J.Bat

Re: [expert] bash scripting question - simple regular expression?

2003-01-11 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:56 pm, Jim C wrote: > I have a list of positive integers of which I only want the first one. > They are of arbitrary size. How can I cut the rest of them off? > I've been trying to write a regular expression for this usin

Re: [expert] Continued login problems

2003-01-11 Thread James Sparenberg
You could force a sync so to speak as root run vipw then take a user ... duplicate that users line and add a 2 (or some other symbol after the uname) then save... do the same for the same user when it asks if you want to edit shadow passwd. Then without logging out. try logging in as a user.

Re: [expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions

2003-01-11 Thread James Sparenberg
Mark did it give you the rpm-rebuild package? James On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 18:22, Mark Weaver wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:47 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza scribbled > incoherently: > > 1) Mi dhcp (cable modem) not well installed, the

Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH

2003-01-11 Thread James Sparenberg
As for why against... this network is my home and I can't afford to go buy another comp and IP just to "protect" the 4 or 5 boxes behind it. *grin* James On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 10:24, Lorne wrote: > On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:49 am, Mark Weaver wrote: > > Lorne wrote: > > > On Friday 10 Janu

Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH

2003-01-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 18:24, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: > On Sunday 12 January 2003 00:47, Lorne wrote: > > That is what I think. The reason I want to speak to him. I am not in the > > security section. I'm trying. I am positive they are in way over their > > heads and I told him it wasn't a matter if but

Re: [expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions

2003-01-11 Thread James Sparenberg
It should be in cooker ... grab this one and you should be able to rebuild/build rpms... rpm-rebuilder-0.7-1mdk is the file from 9.0 and yes... if forgot the er before.. James On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 19:42, Mark Weaver wrote: > James Sparenberg wrote: > > Mark did it give you the rpm-rebuild pa

Re: [expert] making a boot disk

2003-01-11 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 07:41 pm, Charlie wrote: > On Saturday 11 January 2003 04:09 pm, SainTiss wrote: > > Hi, > > > > mkbootdisk should be the command you're looking for.. > > > > Cheers, > > > > Hans > > > > On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 23:56, Mark We

Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH

2003-01-11 Thread Michael Viron
I've been lucky so far -- at the company I work for, I'm in charge of all technology oriented activities (security, database, systems, helpdesk, and so forth) so if I make a suggestion there is typically very little resistance to it (since, after all, I've been right several times before already --

Re: [expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions

2003-01-11 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:47 pm, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza scribbled incoherently: > 1) Mi dhcp (cable modem) not well installed, the resolv.conf file was > empty; I had to put the ips using a text editor. Now is runing > > 2) Tv well configured. I

Re: [expert] Firewall stuff SSH

2003-01-11 Thread Mark Weaver
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 11 January 2003 09:17 pm, Lorne scribbled incoherently: > Could very well be. Unfortunately the two guys that are in "charge" of it > are such buffoons that I would not work with them anyhow. I fully expect > them to get fired soon. They ar

Re: [expert] 9.1 beta 1 first impressions

2003-01-11 Thread Mark Weaver
James Sparenberg wrote: Mark did it give you the rpm-rebuild package? James No, I don't believe it did. I looked around for it, but it didn't appear to be there. -- Mark --- Paid for by Penguins against modern appliances(R) Linux User Si

Re: [expert] First 9.1beta *not* frustrating experience

2003-01-11 Thread Mark Weaver
James Sparenberg wrote: Mark, Are you running this on a laptop or a DeskTop... Reason I'm asking is I tried out the cooker kernel a few weeks ago on my laptop and found that pcmcia slowed to an absolute crawl then a boot back into MDK stock and it became normal again. James Hi James,

[expert] Re: Samba 2.2.7a packages

2003-01-11 Thread Bob [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Anyways, does 2.2.7a fix this 2GB file limit problem? How long has > this problem been around (this is the first I've heard of it, but I'm > not a samba user). It most certainly does. I posted something here, didn't get any replies, so I went to the Samba list, where the issue was discussed h

Re: [expert] bash scripting question - simple regular expression?

2003-01-11 Thread Bopolissimus Platypus
> On Saturday 11 January 2003 08:56 pm, Jim C wrote: > > I have a list of positive integers of which I only want the first one. > > They are of arbitrary size. How can I cut the rest of them off? > > I've been trying to write a regular expression for this using sed or awk. you don't specify the fo

[expert] Losing smooth scrolling after apm wakeup and hwclock --hctosys

2003-01-11 Thread Gerald Timothy Quimpo
hello, on a Dell Latitude CPi (300 Mhz PII) using Mandrake 9.0 I have problems with smooth scrolling after a hwclock --hctosys. when I do that, i can't click and drag windows anymore (have to right click, move), and i can't smoothly scroll scrollbars (have to click on the arrows or somewhere in t

Re: [expert] dosemu?

2003-01-11 Thread Will Styles
On Sat, 11 Jan 2003 01:58 am, Toshiro wrote: > Anybody knows why dosemu is not included with > Mandrake? Mandrake was incompetent with their dosemu packages (iirc in MDK 8.0 and 8.1, it DID NOT EVEN WORK in X mode - did MDK actually test their packages before release? imagine if MS shipped a versio

[expert] Continued Problems Solved

2003-01-11 Thread Ric Tibbetts
After much head scratching, and digging, I think (hope) that I've found all the gremlins that infected that server. Thank you for all the suggestions. They all helped! Ric Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

Re: [expert] Losing smooth scrolling after apm wakeup and hwclock--hctosys

2003-01-11 Thread James Sparenberg
I was able to this on my laptop the other day... turned out I had a runaway program when I did top I saw and found the problem... (I use the suspend button and lphdisk on my laptop.) Next time it does this try top and or ps -ax and see if something is going nuts. It definitely sounds like som